The LIST

Modern books you might enjoy reading, in alphabetical order…

  • 1491, Charles Mann (Knopf)
  • 7th Function of Language, Laurent Binet (Harvill Secker)
  • Alan Klein, Fred Goodman (Mariner)
  • American Plague, Molly Caldwell Crosby (Berkley)
  • Ashes in the Wind, Christopher Bland (Head of Zeus)
  • Bad Business, Robert B Parker (No Exit)
  • Black Sugar, Miguel Bonnefoy (Gallic)
  • Blood, Bones and Butter, Gabrielle Hamilton (Vintage)
  • Brooklyn, Colm Toibin (Penguin)
  • Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber)
  • Café of Lost Youth, Patrick Modiano (Maclehose)
  • Colour, Victoria Finlay (Random)
  • Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Xiaolu Guo (Vintage)
  • Cry, Mother Spain, Lydie Salvayre (Maclehose)
  • Death in Pont Aven, Jean-Luc Bannalec (Minotaur)
  • Dirt Music, Tim Winto0n (Penguin)
  • Disappearance of Adele Bedeau (Contraband)
  • Elegance of the Hedgehog , Muriel Barbery (Gallic)
  • English Food, Diane Purkiss (Collins)
  • Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed (Viking/Penguin)
  • Fraud, Zadie Smith
  • Gallows Pole, Benjamin Myers (Bluemoose)
  • Gathering, Anne Enright (Vintage)
  • Gilhead, Marilynne Robinsdon (Virago)
  • Hack Attack, Nick Davies (Chatto and Windus)
  • HHH, Laurent Biney (Harvill Secker)
  • His Bloody Project, Graeme Burnet Macrae (Contraband)
  • Intermission, Owen Martell (Windmill)
  • Leviathan, Philip Hoare (Fourth Estate)
  • Life of Pi, Yann Martel (Cannongate)
  • Life, Keith Richards (Phoenix)
  • Love by Toni Morrison (Vintage)
  • Milkman, Anna Burns (Faber)
  • Museum of Extraordinary Things, Alice Hoffman (Simon & Schuster)
  • My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante (Europa)
  • Noise of Time, Julian Barnes (Vintage)
  • Norah Webster, Colm Toibin (Penguin)
  • Octavio’s Journey, Miguel Bonnefoy (Gallic)
  • On Writing, Stephen King (Pocket)
  • Order of the Day, Eric Vuillard (Picador)
  • Paying Guest, Sarah Waters (Virago)
  • Pommes de Terre, Frederic Anton (La Chene)
  • Recipes for a Nervous Breakdown, Sophie White (Gill)
  • Salt Creek, Lucy Treloar (Gallic)
  • Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari (Harvill Secker)
  • Search Warrant, Pastrick Modiano (Maclehose)
  • Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd (Headline)
  • Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry (Faber)
  • Shogun’s Queen, Lesley Downer (Bantam)
  • Sisters Brothers, Patrick Dewitt (Granta)
  • So You Don’t get Lost in the Neighbourhood, Patrick Modiano (Maclehose)
  • Spring Cannot Be Cancelled by David Hockney and Martin Gayford (Thames and Hudson)
  • Star of the Sea, Joseph O’Connor (Secker & Warburg)
  • Summer by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)
  • Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki (Canongate)
  • Ten Rules of Writing, Elmore Leonard (William Morrow)
  • Third Plate, Dan Barber (Abacus)
  • Thousand Moons, Sebastian Barry (Faber)
  • Thrill of it All, Jospeh O’Connor
  • Trip to Eacho Springs, Olivia Lang (Cannongate)
  • Troubled Blood by G K Galbraith (Sphere)
  • Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Mass, Daniel James (Dead Ink)
  • Van Gogh and Britain (The Tate)
  • Vanishing Futurist, Charlotte Hobson (Faber)
  • Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrf4ence Schrad (Oxford University Press)
  • Wallcreeper, Nell Zink (Fourth Estate)
  • Warlight, Michael Ondaatje (Jonathan Cape)
  • We Don’t Know Ourselves by Fintan O’Toole
  • Wild Thing, Sue Pridaux
  • Wrong Side of Goodbye, Michael Connelly (Orion)