This list will be continually changing. My aim is to place special emphasis on books that I feel deserve more attention and acclaim.

Literary Fiction

• The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
• Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
• Milkman by Anna Burns
• The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
• Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
• You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue
• The Counterlife by Philip Roth

Science Fiction & Fantasy

• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
• The City & the City by China Miéville
• The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
• The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
• Hyperion by Dan Simmons
• Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Mystery

• The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm Mackay
• The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer
• The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza
• The Snowman by Jo Nesbø