My Six Best Books

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie

Touching The Void by Joe Simpson

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Firm by John Grisham

Talking to Strangers : What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell

Sweet Filthy Boy : 1 by Christina Lauren

Strangers On A Train by Patricia Highsmith

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre

Siege Of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Secret History by Donna Tartt

Rise and Kill First : The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman

Reunion by Fred Uhlman

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Perkin by Ann Wroe

Overstory by Richard Powers

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Night Train by Martin Amis

Naked In Death : 1 by J.D. Robb

Mrs Lather's Laundry by Allan Ahlberg

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Microserfs by Douglas Coupland

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge

Institute by Stephen King
10th September

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton

Fight by Norman Mailer

Fatherland by Robert Harris

Experience by Martin Amis

English Job : Understanding Iran and Why It Distrusts Britain by Jack Straw

Emma by Jane Austen

Elevator Pitch by Linwood Barclay
5th September

Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

Dragon Bound : Number 1 in series by Thea Harrison

Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith

Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Dumas

Complete Short Stories by Saki

Committed : A Love Story by Elizabeth Gilbert

Color Purple by Alice Walker

Cider House Rules by John Irving

Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition by Joseph Heller

Boy Who Made the World Disappear by Ben Miller

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig

Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens

Animal's Companion by Jacky Colliss Harvey

Angels' Blood : Book 1 by Nalini Singh

An Impeccable Spy by Owen Matthews

Agent Zigzag : The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy by Ben Macintyre

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

A Natural Woman by Carole King

A Minute to Midnight by David Baldacci
14th November

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh