2019
- Beyond Time: Classic Tales of Time Unwound, Mike Ashley
- John Aubrey: My Own Life, Ruth Scurr
- Image of the Invisible: Daily Bible readings from Advent to Epiphany, Amy Scott Robinson
- Lady of Shadows, Breanna Teintze
- Lord of Secrets, Breanna Teintze
- One Hundred Days, Sandy Woodward
- The Green Man’s Foe, Juliet E. McKenna
- Unlocking the Bible, David Pawson
- Inca Kola: A Traveller’s Tale of Peru, Matthew Parris
- Time Travelling with a Hamster, Ross Welford
- Flak : True Stories from the Men Who Flew in World War Two, Michael Veitch
- The Plausibility Problem: The Church And Same-Sex Attraction, Ed Shaw
- Half-Witch, John Schoffstall
- The Living Years, Mike Rutherford
- The Second Sleep, Robert Harris
- Four, John Glass
- Undivided: Coming Out, Becoming Whole, and Living Free From Shame, Vicky Beeching
- Twenty-Five Years in Kashmir: Headmaster on a Mission, John Ray
- Leota’s Garden, Francine Rivers
- Writing About Your Life: A Journey into the Past, William Zinsser
- The Gestapo Defied: Being the last twenty-eight sermons by M. Niemöller, Martin Niemöller
- Zero History, William Gibson
- A Place of Refuge: An Experiment in Communal Living – The Story of Windsor Hill Wood, Tobias Jones
- Brunel: The Man Who Built the World, Steven Brindle
- Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey
- Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
- Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Siegfried Sassoon
- Honest to God, John Robinson
- The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Turton
- Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding Schools, 1939-1979, Ysenda Maxtone Graham
- Last Boy Standing, Andrew Lane
- Last Safe Moment, Andrew Lane
- Crash Landing, Robert Muchamore
- God B.C.: God’s Grace in the Old Testament, Anthony Phillips
- The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power behind Five English Thrones, Thomas Asbridge
- Skyward, Brandon Sanderson
- Erebus: The Story of a Ship, Michael Palin
- Artemis, Andy Weir
- Sold: One Woman’s True Account of Modern Slavery, Zana Muhsen and Andrew Crofts
- Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford, Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin
- A War of Loves, David Bennett
- The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man, Jonas Jonasson
- Morhelion, Dominic Dulley
- No Way, S.J. Morden
- Phoenix at Coventry: the Building of a Cathedral, Basil Spence
- Shattermoon, Dominic Dulley
- How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth: Fourth Edition, Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart
- One Way, S.J. Morden
- Shadow Captain, Alastair Reynolds
- Pilgrim Journeys: Pilgrimage for Walkers and Armchair Travellers, Sally Welch
- Air Bridge / The Strange Land, Hammond Innes
- A Legacy of Spies, John le Carré
- The Young Magicians and The Thieves’ Almanac, Nick Mohammed
- The Prize of All the Oceans, Glyn Williams
- Our Child of the Stars, Stephen Cox
2018
- Sea of Rust, C. Robert Cargill
- Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, Simon Baker
- The Road, Cormac McCarthy
- Dangerous Deceits, Cherith Baldry
- Three Corvettes, Nicholas Monsarrat
- In This Light: Thoughts for Christmas, Justin Welby
- Bringing in the Sheaves: Wheat and Chaff from My Years as a Priest, Reverend Richard Coles
- No Middle Name, Lee Child
- Spiritual and Religious: The Gospel in an Age of Paganism, Tom Wright
- Beyond Falcon’s Reach, Jay Northearn
- Smiley’s People, John le Carré
- A Scandalous Life: The Biography of Jane Digby, Mary S. Lovell
- Bitten, Kelley Armstrong
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
- Munich, Robert Harris
- Snapshot, Brandon Sanderson
- La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman
- The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Scepticism, Timothy Keller
- Beartown, Frederik Backman
- Antidote to Venom, Freeman Wills Crofts
- A Perfect Spy, John le Carré
- Secret Army, Robert Muchamore
- Crisis, Frank Gardner
- A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
- Even In Our Darkness: A Story of Beauty in a Broken World, Jack Deere
- Tommy Catkins, Stephen Palmer
- Anatomy of a Soldier, Harry Parker
- Killer T, Robert Muchamore
- Night After Night, Phil Rickman
- Agent Without License, Andrew Lane
- Wife to Charles II, Hilda Lewis
- A Painful Post Mortem, Mel Menzies
- Colonel Sun, Robert Markham
- Slow Bullets, Alastair Reynolds
- The Last Chance Hotel, Nicki Thornton
- Imperial Earth, Arthur C. Clarke
- Monsignor Quixote, Graham Greene
- Not So Stories, David Thomas Moore (Ed.)
- Stalingrad, Antony Beevor
- The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, Lesslie Newbigin
- The Long and Whining Road, Simeon Courtie
- The Red House, Mark Haddon
- Spaceman, Mike Massimino
- The Green Man’s Heir, Juliet E. McKenna
- God be in My Mouth: 40 Ways to Grow as a Preacher, Doug Gay
- The Book of Strange New Things, Michel Faber
- Brutal Terminations, Cherith Baldry
- Ghosts & Exiles, Sandra Unerman
- All of a Winter’s Night, Phil Rickman
- Ada Lovelace, The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter, Benjamin Woolley
- Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith, Benjamin L. Corey
- Jerusalem: The Biography, Simon Sebag-Montefiore
- Chalk, Paul Cornell
- Golden Hill, Francis Spufford
- Trigger Mortis, Anthony Horowitz
- Dark Parallel, M.G. Harris
- Queer and Catholic: A Life of Contradiction, Mark Dowd
- Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Scepticism, Timothy Keller
- Elysium Fire, Alastair Reynolds
- Wennerström the Spy, H.K. Rönblom
- New Life: Reflections for Lent, edited by Amy Robinson and Wendy H. Jones
- White Storm, M.G. Harris
- Ghost Mine, M.G. Harris
- Black Horizon, M.G. Harris
- The Pier Falls: And Other Stories, Mark Haddon
- The Robots Are Coming: Us, Them & God, Nigel Cameron
- The Accordionist, Fred Vargas
- Telling Secrets, Frederick Buechner
- Fantasy Stories, chosen by Diana Wynne Jones
- Pastoral, Nevil Shute
- The Complaints, Ian Rankin
- Brendan: A Novel, Patrick Buechner
2017
- Tales of Known Space, Larry Niven
- Wrestling With The Word: Preaching Tricky Texts, Kate Bruce and Jamie Harrison
- The Last Namsara, Kristen Ciccarelli
- Dot Robot, Jason Bradbury
- Never Go Back, Lee Child
- Ghostwriting, Andrew Crofts
- Gone Tomorrow, Lee Child
- Zero Moment (The Joshua Files), M.G. Harris
- Ice Shock (The Joshua Files), M.G. Harris
- Invisible City (The Joshua Files), M.G. Harris
- The Magus of Hay, Phil Rickman
- Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Lois McMaster Bujold
- What is the Point of Being a Christian?, Timothy Radcliffe
- Lost Worlds 2: Shadow Creatures, Andrew Lane
- Sea of Stone, Chris Amies
- Lost Worlds, Andrew Lane
- In the Dark: Tales of Terror, E. Nesbit
- Realms of Glory, Catherine Fox
- Gone Wild, Robert Muchamore
- South by South East, Anthony Horowitz
- Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People, Nadia Bolz-Weber
- Silver, Andrew Motion
- New Guard, Robert Muchamore
- The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Natasha Pulley
- The Grain Kings, Keith Roberts
- Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh
- The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
- Devil May Care, Sebastian Faulks
- Monty: His Part in My Victory, Spike Milligan
- The Shaken Path: A Christian Priest’s Exploration of Modern Pagan Belief and Practice, Paul Cudby
- Rommel? Gunner Who?, Spike Milligan
- Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, Spike Milligan
- Uniform Justice, Donna Leon
- Lonely Road, Nevil Shute
- In the Teeth of the Evidence, Dorothy L. Sayers
- The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Dorothy L. Sayers
- Unbelievable?: Why After Ten Years of Talking with Atheists, I’m Still a Christian, Justin Brierley
- Spellhaven, Sandra Unerman
- The Martian, Andy Weir
- Burning Angels, Bear Grylls
- What is Your God Like?, Gerard W. Hughes
- The Last Theorem, Arthur C. Clarke & Frederik Pohl
- A Book of Boys’ Stories, Robert Bateman and Nicholas Marrat
- Russian Roulette, Anthony Horowitz
- The Emperor of All Things, Paul Witcover
- Never Say Die, Anthony Horowitz
- God and Stephen Hawking: Whose Design is it Anyway?, John C. Lennox
- The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One 1929-1964: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America, ed. Robert Silverberg
- Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White
- The Satan Bug, Alistair MacLean
- Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the Dams, 1943, James Holland
- Stress: The Path to Peace, Simon Vibert
- Emperor of the Eight Islands, Lian Hearn
- Conclave, Robert Harris
- God Game, Andrew Greeley
- The Cuckoo’s Calling, Robert Galbraith
- Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor, Adrian Goldsworthy
- How Not to Pray: A Fresh Look at Prayer, Jeff Lucas
- The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
- Spies, Michael Frayn
- Maggot Moon, Sally Gardner
- The Falcon’s Malteser, Anthony Horowitz
- Katharina Luther: Nun, Rebel, Wife, Anne Boileau
- Night Break, Andrew Lane
- To the Brink (The Expedition Trilogy, Book 3): True Story of the First Human-Powered Circumnavigation of the Earth, Jason Lewis
- When God Breaks In: Revival Can Happen Again, Michael Green
- Stone Cold, Andrew Lane
- Ghostwritten, David Mitchell
- Knife Edge, Andrew Lane
- Boot Camp, Robert Muchamore
- The Final Planet, Andrew M. Greeley
- Letters from a Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father’s Questions about Christianity, Gregory A. Boyd and Edward K. Boyd
- , Fredrik Backman
- The White City, Simon Morden
- The Lion Children, Angus, Maisie and Travers McNeice
- A Devil’s Chaplain, Richard Dawkins
- At the Speed of Light, Simon Morden
- Unapologetic, Francis Spufford
- Slade House, David Mitchell
- Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty, Catherine Bailey
- Lone Wolf, Robert Muchamore
- Black Friday, Robert Muchamore
- The Dark Night of the Shed, Nick Page
- Thinks …, David Lodge
2016
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
- The Fall, Robert Muchamore
- Divine Madness, Robert Muchamore
- The Call, Peadar Ó Guilín
- Tidings: A Christmas Journey, Ruth Padel
- Plain Tales from the Raj, ed. Charles Allen
- Ender in Exile, Orson Scott Card
- The One True Story: Daily Readings for Advent from Genesis to Jesus, Tim Chester
- The Killing, Robert Muchamore
- The Sleepwalker, Robert Muchamore
- Kim, Rudyard Kipling
- Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?, Paul Cornell
- Mary’s Story, Mary’s Song, Elaine Storkey
- Straight on for Tokyo, O G W White
- Avenger, Andy McNab
- Payback, Andy McNab
- Boy Soldier, Andy McNab
- Maximum Security, Robert Muchamore
- The Recruit, Robert Muchamore
- Nightrunners of Bengal, John Masters
- Shadow Wave, Robert Muchamore
- Brigands M.C., Robert Muchamore
- Red Notice, Andy McNab
- Ada: the Enchantress of Numbers, Betty A. Toole
- City of Masks, Mary Hoffman
- Man vs Beast, Robert Muchamore
- The Girl in the Spider’s Web, David Lagercrantz
- Rock War, Robert Muchamore
- Class A, Robert Muchamore
- Skulduggery Pleasant, Derek Landy
- Eagle Day, Robert Muchamore
- The Escape, Robert Muchamore
- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer, Sydney Padua
- Nomad, Brandan Robertson
- The Wounded Healer, Henri Nouwen
- Ada’s Algorithm: How Lord Byron’s Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age through the Poetry of Numbers, James Essinger
- Ada Lovelace: The Computer Wizard of Victorian England, Lucy Lethbridge
- Izzy the Invisible, Louise Gray
- Flying Fergus, Chris Hoy
- Railhead, Philip Reeve
- Fortress, Andy McNab
- For Valour, Andy McNab
- Firewall, Andy McNab
- Cranky, Beautiful Faith, Nadia Bolz-Weber
- The Good Psychopath’s Guide to Success, Dr Kevin Dutton & Andy McNab
- Ghost Flight, Bear Grylls
- True Grit, Bear Grylls
- Octopussy, Ian Fleming
- The Man with the Golden Gun, Ian Fleming
- You Only Live Twice, Ian Fleming
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Ian Fleming
- White Child, F.T. Barbini
- Diary of a Witchcraft Shop 2, Trevor Jones and Liz Williams
- For Your Eyes Only, Ian Fleming
- Thunderball, Ian Fleming
- Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5, Stella Rimington
- Swords Against Death, Fritz Leiber
- A Glass of Shadows, Liz Williams
- The Eidolon, Libby McGugan
- A Nearly Infallible History of Christianity, Nick Page
- The Jazz Files, Fiona Veitch Smith
- Red Notice, Bill Browser
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, Stieg Larsson
- The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
- The Guns of Ivrea, Clifford Beal
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
- Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz
- Goldfinger, Ian Fleming
- The Weekend That Changed the World: The Mystery of Jerusalem’s Empty Tomb, Peter Walker
- Dr No, Ian Fleming
- From Russia with Love, Ian Fleming
- The Murdstone Trilogy, Mal Peet
- Mostly Murder, Sydney Smith
- Diamonds Are Forever, Ian Fleming
- Moonraker, Ian Fleming
- Live and Let Die, Ian Fleming
- Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
- Crashing Heaven, Al Robertson
- The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell
- Sea-Green Magic, Elizabeth Beresford
- The House of Shattered Wings, Aliette de Bodard
- Sherlock Holmes: The Thinking Engine, James Lovegrove
- Slaying the Dragons: Destroying Myths in the History of Science and Faith, Allan Chapman
- Post Office, Charles Bukowski
- Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799-1815, Philip Dwyer
- Down Station, Simon Morden
- No Present Like Time, Steph Swainston
- William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, Ian Doescher
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- The Long Mars, Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
- The Fort, Bernard Cornwell
- The Shepherd’s Crown, Terry Pratchett
- Boy Nobody, Allen Zadoff
- Emil and the Sneaky Rat, Astrid Lindgren
- Baptism of Fire, Frank Collins
- Dictator, Robert Harris
2015
- Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief, Rick Riordan
- The New Enemy, Andy McNab
- Some Issues in Human Sexuality: A Guide to the Debate, House of Bishops
- Moscow Tales, Sasha Dugdale (trans.), Helen Constantine (Ed.)
- The Reluctant Assassin, Eoin Colfer
- Erasing Hell, Francis Chan & Preston Sprinkle
- Shades of Grey, Jasper Fforde
- Foxglove Summer, Ben Aaronovitch
- Crusoe: Dawn of Spies, Andrew Lane
- Screwtape Proposes a Toast, C.S. Lewis
- Music in the Bone and Other Stories, Marion Pitman
- Author, Author, David Lodge
- Killer’s Countdown, Wendy H. Jones
- Destiny’s Rebel, Philip S. Davies
- Prayer: Letters to Malcolm, C.S. Lewis
- The World and the Stars, Chris Butler (Ed.)
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John le Carré
- Moon’s Artifice, Tom Lloyd
- Tales from the Vatican Vaults, David V. Barrett (Ed.)
- Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John le Carré
- The New Patrol, Andy McNab
- Immediate Action, Andy McNab
- The New Recruit, Andy McNab
- You Can’t be Serious!, Michael Green
- The Mathematics of Love, Emma Darwin
- Jennings Goes to School, Anthony Buckeridge
- Doctor Who & the Giant Robot, Terrance Dicks
- Mother of Eden, Chris Beckett
- Redshirts, John Scalzi
- Nelson, Terry Coleman
- Bullshit Baffles Brains: An Account of the Dorsets in Hong Kong 1952-54, Dick Eberlie and Christopher Jary
- A Slip of the Keyboard, Terry Pratchett
- A Touch of Chill, Joan Aiken
- People’s Republic, Robert Muchamore
- Falling Upwards, Richard Holmes
- Earth Awakens, Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston
- Earth Afire, Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston
- Earth Unaware, Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston
- Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, Hilary Mantel
- Pushing Ice, Alastair Reynolds
- Death on Lindisfarne, Fay Sampson
- The Bloodline Cipher, Stephen Cole
- The Aedyn Chronicles: Chosen Ones, Alister McGrath
- The Aztec Code, Stephen Cole
- The Introvert Charismatic: the Gift of Introversion in a Noisy Church, Mark Tanner
- Harbour, John Alvide Lindqvist
- Rogue Male, Geoffrey Household
- Marcher, Chris Beckett
- The Lunar Men, Jenny Uglow
- A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
- Popcultured: Thinking Christianly About Style, Media and Entertainment, Steve Turner
- Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
2014
- Empire of Dust, Jacey Bedford
- Raising Steam, Terry Pratchett
- Art in Nature: and Other Stories, Tove Jansson
- Toast, Nigel Slater
- The Book of Three, Lloyd Alexander
- The Moon King, Neil Williamson
- Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
- The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson
- The Severed Streets, Paul Cornell
- Thieves Like Us, Stephen Cole
- The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF, Ed. Mike Ashley
- Shanghai Sparrow, Gaie Sebold
- The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden, Jonas Jonasson
- Homeland, Cory Doctorow
- The New Space Opera 2, Ed. Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
- End of the Road, Ed. Jonathan Oliver
- Café Theology, Michael Lloyd
- The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch
- Shada, Gareth Roberts
- Life on the Preservation, Jack Skillingstead
- Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers
- The Volunteer, Peadar Ó Guilín
- Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie
- What’s So Amazing About Grace?, Philip Yancey
- Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold
- An Officer and a Spy, Robert Harris
- Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
- The Vicar’s FAQ: All You Ever Wanted to Know about Christianity and the Church, Caroline Symcox
- Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Lois McMaster Bujold
- A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
- Diplomatic Immunity, Lois McMaster Bujold
- Ten: Why Christianity Makes Sense, John Pritchard
- H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life, Michael Sherborne
- The Ravens’ Banquet, Clifford Beal
- A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
- General Gordon on Golgotha: Gordon’s Letters to Sir John Cowell 1883, Rosalind Meryon
- Komarr, Lois McMaster Bujold
- Snake Bite, Andrew Lane
- Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold
- Hive Monkey, Gareth L. Powell
- Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold
- Arcanum, Simon Morden
- Borders of Infinity, Lois McMaster Bujold
- God’s War, Kameron Hurley
- Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Harsh Cry of the Heron, Lian Hearn
- Ethan of Athos, Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Long War, Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
- Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Long Earth, Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
2013
- The Vor Game, Lois McMaster Bujold
- Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch
- The Warrior’s Apprentice, Lois McMaster Bujold
- London Falling, Paul Cornell
- Barrayar, Lois McMaster Bujold
- Age of Godpunk, James Lovegrove
- Shards of Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold
- Gideon’s Angel, Clifford Beal
- Guardians of Time, Poul Anderson
- The King of Elfland’s Daughter, Lord Dunsany
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
- Osama, Lavie Tidhar
- Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane, ed. Jonathan Oliver
- Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Lois McMaster Bujold
- Vulcan 607, Rowland White
- The Children of the Sky, Vernor Vinge
- A Wizard in Mind, Christopher Stasheff
- Regency Buck, Georgette Heyer
- Runemarks, Joanne Harris
- Boneland, Alan Garner
- Emelie & the Hollow World, Martha Wells
- The Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles, Rosemary Sutcliffe
- Phoenicia’s Worlds, Ben Jeapes
- Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Azincourt, Bernard Cornwell
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Archbishop Justin Welby, Andrew Atherstone
- The Curve of the Earth, Simon Morden
- Dark Eden, Chris Beckett
- How Music Works, David Byrne
- Ack-Ack Macaque, Gareth L. Powell
- Fisher’s Face, Jan Morris
- The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle, Russell Miller
- Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman
- A Blink of the Screen, Terry Pratchett
- With Napoleon in Russia, General Armand de Caulaincourt
- For the Win, Cory Doctorow
- Being a Leaseholder: The Essential Guide to Owning a Flat, Nicolas Shulman
- God Collar, Marcus Brigstocke
- The House of Silk, Anthony Horowitz
2012
- Dodger, Terry Pratchett
- Forty Signs of Rain, Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Fear Index, Robert Harris
- Katya’s World, Jonathan L. Howard
- The Push, Dave Hutchinson
- Riding Rockets, Mike Mullane
- House of Suns, Alastair Reynolds
- In the Service of the Sultan: A First Hand Account of the Dhofar Insurgency, Ian Gardiner
- Century Rain, Alastair Reynolds
- The Man Who Left Too Soon: the Life and Works of Stieg Larsson, Barry Forshaw
- The Locked Room, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
- The Coming of the Terraphiles, Michael Moorcock
- White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America, Fintan O’Toole
- Embassytown, China Miéville
- Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC, Bernard Cornwell
- Absolution Gap, Alastair Reynolds
- The Lost Abbey of Abingdon
- Heart, Simon Morden
- Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire Storm, Andrew Lane
- Napoleon’s Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand, David Lawday
- Little Star, by John Ajvide Lindqvist
- A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold Part 2, by George R.R. Martin
- Patrick O’Brian, by Nikolai Tolstoy
- Rule 34, by Charles Stross
- The Secrets of Station X: How the Bletchley Park Codebreakers Helped Win the War, by Michael Smith
- Damage Time, Colin Harvey
- Electronic Brains: Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age, Mike Hally
- Good Evening, Mrs Craven, Mollie Panter-Downes
2011
- Snuff, Terry Pratchett
- Ark Royal, Mike Rossiter
- The Cyberiad, Stanislaw Lem
- The Crow Road, Iain Banks
- The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Kate Summerscale
- On Writing, Stephen King
- Pig’s Progress, Jeanette Sears
- Peace and War, Joe Haldeman
- Time Riders, Alex Scarrow
- A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
- Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold
- Death of the Scharnhorst, John Winton
- The Recollection, Gareth L. Powell
- Margrave of the Marshes, John Peel
- The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Süskind
- The Fry Chronicles, Stephen Fry
- Whitehall: The Street that Shaped a Nation, Colin Brown
- Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy, Andy Briggs
- The Deserter, Peadar Ó Guilín
- The Death of Dalziel, Reginald Hill
- David, Mary Hoffman
- Young Sherlock Holmes: Black Ice, Andrew Lane
- Midwinter of the Spirit, Phil Rickman
- The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
- A Good Hanging and Other Stories, Ian Rankin
- Blood Fever, Charlie Higson
- Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
- An April Shroud, Reginald Hill
- A Clubbable Woman, Reginald Hill
- The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
- The Woodcutter, Reginald Hill
- Lob, Linda Newbery
- Degrees of Freedom, Simon Morden
- Reave the Just and Other Tales, Stephen Donaldson
- Scorpia Rising, Anthony Horowitz
- Theories of Flight, Simon Morden
- Equations of Life, Simon Morden
- The Mammoth Book of Life Before the Mast: Firsthand Accounts of Naval Warfare from the Age of Nelson and Fighting Sail, ed. Jon E. Lewis
- The Vivero Letter, Desmond Bagley
- Scrimgeour’s Scribbling Diary: The Truly Astonishing Diary and Letters of an Edwardian Gentleman, Naval Officer, Boy and Son, Alexander Scrimgeour
- The City and the City, China Miéville
- The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton
- Iron Tears: America’s Battle for Freedom, Britain’s Quagmire: 1775-1783, Stanley Weintraub
- I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett
- The Black Arrow, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and Weir of Hermiston, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography, Claire Harman
- Mr Golightly’s Holiday, Salley Vickers
And I gave up on Wormwood, G.P. Taylor
2010
- Empire of the Clouds, James Hamilton-Paterson
- For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming + James Bond, Ben Macintyre
- Dark Spires, ed. Colin Harvey
- Young Sherlock Holmes: Red Leech, Andrew Lane
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
- We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
- The Gift of Joy, Ian Whates
- Wake, Robert J. Sawyer
- Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, Peter Høeg
- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Andrew Sillitoe
- The Information Officer, Mark Mills
- Crocodile Tears, Anthony Horowitz
- Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud, Andrew Lane
- Silverfin,Charlie Higson
- Trash, Andy Mulligan
- The Noise Within, Ian Whates
- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Paul Torday
- The Far Out Worlds of A.E. van Vogt, A.E. van Vogt
- The Tightrope Men, Desmond Bagley
- Sun Koh Heir of Atlantis, Art Sippo
- The Nemesis List, R.J. Frith
- Lake Wobegon Days, Garrison Keillor
- Lustrum, Robert Harris
- Birth of the Kingdom, Jan Guillou
- The English Dane, Sarah Bakewell
- Sixty One Nails, Mike Shevdon
- The Boy Who Invented the Bubble Gun, Paul Gallico
- The Blender: An Anthology by the First Story Group at Larkmead School, ed. Tim Pears
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
- There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom, Louis Sachar
- Conflicts, ed. Ian Whates
- Irons in the Fire, Juliet E. McKenna
- Avilion, Robert Holdstock
- Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre
- Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves
- The Life of Nelson, Robert Southey
- The Ladies of Grace Adieu, Susanna Clarke
- Napoleon and Europe, D.G. Wright
- The Blade Itself, Joe Abercrombie
- The Iron Man, Ted Hughes
- Clisson and Eugénie, Napoleon Bonaparte
- Napoleon: His Wives and Women, Christopher Hibbert
- Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett
- Napoleon, Vincent Cronin
- Malta Convoy, Peter Shankland & Anthony Hunter
- Most Secret, Nevil Shute
- A Night to Remember, Walter Lord
- How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, Francis Wheen
- Rumpole & the Penge Bungalow Murders, John Mortimer
- Winter Song, Colin Harvey
- Rumpole and the Primrose Path, John Mortimer
- The Junior Officers’ Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars, Patrick Hennessey
2009
- The Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson
- Resurrection Men, Ian Rankin
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
- Strange Itineraries, Tim Powers
- Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
- Blind Faith, Colin Harvey
- The Business, Iain Banks
- Nice Work, David Lodge
- Varjak Paw, S.F. Said
- The Bookseller of Kabul, Åsne Seierstad
- Stealing Water – A Secret Life in an African City, Tim Ecott
- The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, on Tour: Aged Far Too Much to Be Put on the Front Cover of a Book, Adrian Plass
- Changeling, Mike Oldfield
- The Oz Suite, Gerard Houarner
- The Stress of her Regard, Tim Powers
- The Second Rumpole Omnibus, John Mortimer
- The Odessa File, Frederick Forsyth
- The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
- The Jennifer Morgue, Charles Stross
- Principles of Angels, Jaine Fenn
- The Prefect, Alastair Reynolds
- Where Eagles Dare, Alistair Maclean
- Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry
- Life of Pi, Yann Martel
- Dead and Alive, Hammond Innes
- The Inferior, Peadar Ó Guilín
- The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
- Future Bristol, Colin Harvey
- Icehenge, Kim Stanley Robinson
- Endymion Spring, Matthew Skelton
- Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
- The Ghost, Robert Harris
- Boom!, Mark Haddon
- The Owl Service, Alan Garner
- Jason, J. M. Marks
- Elidor, Alan Garner
- Sirius, Olaf Stapledon
- Odd John, Olaf Stapledon
- The Last Templar, Michael Jecks
- Miracles of Life, J.G. Ballard
- No Highway, Nevil Shute
- deadkidsongs, Toby Litt
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- A Parliamentary Affair, Edwina Currie
- Fighter Boys, Patrick Bishop
- The Storm Prophet, Hector Macdonald
- Pompeii, Robert Harris
- John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace, Jonathan Aitken
- Christianity Explored, Rico Tice & Barry Cooper
- The Sorcerer’s Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England, Alec Ryrie
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne
- A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon
- William Wilberforce, William Hague
- Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
And life was too short to read Master of Hawks by Linda E. Bushyager.
2008
- Nation, Terry Pratchett
- Black & Blue, Ian Rankin
- The Turing Test, Chris Beckett
- Enigma, Robert Harris
- The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde
- Fool Moon, Jim Butcher
- Storm Front, Jim Butcher
- Halting State, Charles Stross
- Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
- Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
- The Locked Room, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
- Marooned in Real Time, Vernor Vinge
- The Peace War, Vernor Vinge
- Jingo, Terry Pratchett
- Invasive Procedures, Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston
- The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
- Smoke & Mirrors, Neil Gaiman
- His Majesty’s Dragon, Naomi Novik
- Coyote Frontier, Allen Steele
- Coyote Rising, Allen Steele
- Empire, Orson Scott Card
- Notes from a Big Country, Bill Bryson
- The First Rumpole Omnibus, John Mortimer
- Pied Piper, Nevil Shute
- Imperium, Robert Harris
- Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett
- Saturn’s Children, Charles Stross
- Keeper of Dreams, Orson Scott Card
- A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge
- Wife to Charles II, Hilda Lewis
- Round Ireland with a Fridge, Tony Hawks
- I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
- Ireland: Awakening, by Edward Rutherfurd
- The Great Siege: Malta 1565, Ernle Bradford
- Snakehead, Anthony Horowitz
- The Digital Plague, Jeff Somers
- Simon and the Oaks, Marianne Fredriksson
- Then and Now, W. Somerset Maugham
- Leviathan Rising, Jonathan Green
- Stardust, Neil Gaiman
- Let the Right One In, John Ajvide Lindqvist
- Mister Monday, Garth Nix
- Looking for Jake & Other Stories, China Miéville
- Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge
- Causing Chaos with Jeremy James, David Henry Wilson
- The Queen’s Tiara, CJL Almqvist
- The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
- The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman
- Frankenstein Unbound, Brian Aldiss
- The Dilbert Future, Scott Adams
- Galileo’s Daughter, Dava Sobel
- My Booky Wook, Russell Brand
- The Twinkling of an Eye, Brian Aldiss