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