Books



  1. Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman
  2. In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays | Katie Roiphe
  3. Leonardo and the Last Supper | Ross King*
  4. Here and Now: Letters | Paul Auster & J.M Coetzee
  5. Proof | David Auburn
  6. The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams
  7. What is Chemistry? | Peter Atkins
  8. Massive | Ian Sample
  9. Don't Cry Tai Lake | Qiu Xiaolong
  10. The Ladies of Grace Adieu | Susanna Clarke
  11. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe | Douglas Adams
  12. An Appetite for Wonder | Richard Dawkins
  13. Soy Sauce for Beginners | Kirsten Chen
  14. Bonk | Mary Roach*
  15. How To Get Filthy Rich in a Rising Asia | Mohsin Hamed
  16. Seven Elements | John Browne
  17. Turned Out Nice Again | Richard Mabey
  18. This is the Story of a Happy Marriage: Essays | Ann Patchett
  19. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf | Edward Albee
  20. Reborn: Journals Volume 1 | Susan Sontag
  21. As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals Volume 2 | Susan Sontag
  22. In Praise of Love | Alain Badiou
  23. Winter Journal | Paul Auster
  24. Giovanni's Room | James Baldwin
  25. To the Letter | Simon Garfield
  26. Stoner | John Williams
  27. Jonny Ive | Leander Kahney
  28. Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery | Jeanette Winterson
  29. Why I Read | Wendy Lesser
  30. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families | Philip Gourevitch
  31. Waterland | Graham Swift
  32. A Certain Exposure | Jolene Tan
  33. Where I Was: A Memoir from the Margins | Constance Singam
  34. Two Cultures? | F.R Leavis
  35. The Sound Books | Trevor Cox
  36. Dignity | Donna Hicks*
  37. How Literature Saved My Life | David Shields
  38. The First World War | A.J.P Taylor
  39. The Book of My Lives | Aleksander Hemon
  40. Ten Questions: A Sociological Perspective | Joel M. Charon
  41. The Sociology of Personal Life | Vanessa May (ed.)
  42. From Doon with Death | Ruth Rendell
  43. Very Short Introduction to Contemporary Fiction | Robert Eaglestone
  44. The Library | Matthew Battle
  45. The Fault in Our Stars | John Green
  46. Living with a Wild God | Barbara Ehrenreich
  47. What Makes Love Last | John Gottman
  48. July 1914: Countdown to War | Sean McMeekin
  49. 100 Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  50. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | John Le Carre
  51. The Honourable Schoolboy | John Le Carre*
  52. Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others | Shirley Horn
  53. The End of Men | Hanna Rosin
  54. Travels with Epicurus | Daniel Klein
  55. The Shelf: Adventures in Extreme Reading | Phyllis Rose
  56. The Lazarus Project | Aleksandar Hemon 
  57. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain
  58. On Celestial Music and Other Adventures in Listening | Rick Moody
  59. On Rereading | Patricia Meyer Spacks
  60. The Story of Music | Howard Goodall 
  61. The Origins of the First World War | James Joll
  62. The Yellow Birds | Kevin Powers
  63. To Rise Again At A Decent Hour | Joshua Ferris
  64. The Return of Depression Economics | Paul Krugman
  65. We Are Completely Besides Ourselves | Karen Joy Fowler
  66. The Element | Ken Robinson
  67. The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Richard Flanagan
  68. How To Be Both | Ali Smith
  69. J | Howard Jacobsen
  70. The Lives of Others | Neel Mukherjee
  71. Death in Venice | Thomas Mann
  72. Dataclysm | Christian Rudder
  73. The Rosie Project
  74. Us | David Nicholls