We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill BrownA Granite Silence by Nina AllanOther People’s Fun by Harriet LaneOld Soul by Susan  BarkerLet the Bad Times Roll by Alice   Slater
Best Books of 2025
408 books — 88 voters
The Borrowed Hills by Scott  PrestonAnd He Shall Appear by Kate van der BorghPoppyHarp by Simon AveryThe Other Valley by Scott Alexander HowardLet Me Try Again by Matthew   Davis
Best Books of 2024
797 books — 913 voters

Knock Knock, Open Wide by Neil SharpsonConquest by Nina AllanThe Last Language by Jennifer duBoisHow Can I Help You by Laura SimsLiar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong
Best Books of 2023
1,217 books — 1,841 voters
Hare House by Sally HinchcliffeThe World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella BurtonA History of Fear by Luke DumasStargazer by Laurie PetrouLambda by David  Musgrave
Best Books of 2022
1,547 books — 1,855 voters

Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra KleemanTell Me I’m Worthless by Alison RumfittTerminal Boredom by Izumi SuzukiThe Kingdoms by Natasha PulleyThe Coming Bad Days by Sarah Bernstein
Best Books of 2021
1,435 books — 1,624 voters
Holt House by L.G. VeyJudderman by D.A. NorthwoodA Dedicated Friend by Shirley LongfordStarve Acre by Jonathan BuckleyPlunge Hill by J.M. McVulpin
The Eden Book Society
6 books — 1 voter

Real Life by Brandon  TaylorYou Let Me In by Camilla  BruceLondon Incognita by Gary BuddenBoy Parts by Eliza  ClarkScabby Queen by Kirstin Innes
Best Books 2020
612 books — 404 voters
The Dollmaker by Nina AllanWater Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight HardyNecessary People by Anna PitoniakStarve Acre by Jonathan BuckleyFake Like Me by Barbara Bourland
Best Books 2019
1,141 books — 1,304 voters

The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow by Danny DentonI Still Dream by James SmytheCrimson by Niviaq KorneliussenTrick by Domenico StarnonePerfidious Albion by Sam Byers
Best Books 2018
435 books — 293 voters
The Idiot by Elif BatumanDevil’s Day by Andrew Michael HurleyKill All Normies by Angela NagleThe Burning Girl by Claire MessudThe Party by Elizabeth Day
Best Books of 2017
1,743 books — 3,083 voters

A Natural by Ross Raisin
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2017
178 books — 240 voters
The Eleventh Letter by Tom TomaszewskiSweetbitter by Stephanie DanlerThe Summer that Melted Everything by Tiffany   McDanielThe Lonely City by Olivia LaingDeath and the Seaside by Alison Moore
Best Books of 2016
1,839 books — 2,786 voters

Book of Numbers by Joshua CohenThe Ecliptic by Benjamin WoodThe Well by Catherine ChanterThe Ghost Network by Catie DisabatoNumber 11 by Jonathan Coe
The best books of 2015
128 books — 87 voters
All the Devils Are Here by David SeabrookThe Empathy Exams by Leslie JamisonHawthorn & Child by Keith RidgwayHollow by Owen EgertonPurity by Jonathan Franzen
Favourite Covers
265 books — 62 voters

The Engagement by Chloe HooperThe Legacy by Kirsten TranterAfter Me Comes the Flood by Sarah PerryHer by Harriet LaneBook of Numbers by Joshua Cohen
Favorite Poorly Rated Books
1,519 books — 260 voters

Cat Out of Hell by Lynne TrussThe Quickening by Julie MyersonBreakfast with the Borgias by D.B.C. PierreTouched by Joanna BriscoeThe Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore
Hammer Publishing line
26 books — 6 voters
Upstairs at the Party by Linda GrantThe Blazing World by Siri HustvedtA Bad Character by Deepti KapoorGlow by Ned BeaumanThe Lemon Grove by Helen Walsh
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2014
164 books — 695 voters

Upstairs at the Party by Linda GrantAfter Me Comes the Flood by Sarah PerryStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelThe Blazing World by Siri HustvedtHer by Harriet Lane
Best Books of 2014
3,581 books — 6,291 voters
First Novel by Nicholas RoyleOrkney by Amy Sackville
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2013
176 books — 322 voters

Night Film by Marisha PesslThe Engagement by Chloe HooperFirst Novel by Nicholas RoyleCooking With Bones by Jess RichardsOrkney by Amy Sackville
Best Books Published in 2013
3,591 books — 7,166 voters
Narcopolis by Jeet ThayilCommunion Town by Sam     Thompson
2012 Man Booker Prize Longlist
12 books — 177 voters

Alys, Always by Harriet LaneSigns of Life by Anna RaveratWhen Nights Were Cold by Susanna JonesNarcopolis by Jeet ThayilCommunion Town by Sam     Thompson
Best Books of 2012
3,523 books — 9,206 voters
Alys, Always by Harriet LaneSigns of Life by Anna Raverat
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2012
151 books — 269 voters

Lights Out in Wonderland by D.B.C. PierreOur Tragic Universe by Scarlett ThomasDark Matter by Michelle PaverThe Bed I Made by Lucie WhitehouseThe Legacy by Kirsten Tranter
Best Books of 2010
1,576 books — 2,473 voters
Gillespie and I by Jane  HarrisA Summer of Drowning by John BurnsideThe Gallows Curse by Karen MaitlandThe Stranger's Child by Alan HollinghurstThe Book of Lies by Mary Horlock
Best Books of 2011
2,668 books — 6,708 voters

Dark Echo by F.G. CottamDark Matter by Michelle PaverThe Winter Ghosts by Kate MosseThe Little Stranger by Sarah WatersThe Quickening by Julie Myerson
Ghost Stories
1,481 books — 1,878 voters
Gillespie and I by Jane  Harris
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2011
155 books — 277 voters


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