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10 | Author (Last, First) | Selection | Club | Month-Year Selected/Nominated |
11 | Aaronovitch, Ben | Rivers of London (Alt title: Midnight Riot) | MRBC | Jan 2017 |
12 | Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart | Literary | Aug 2013 |
13 | Adams, Douglas | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | NLBC | Oct 2019 |
14 | Adams, Douglas | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | MRBC | Jan 2011 |
15 | Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi | Half of a Yellow Sun | Literary | Jun 2018 |
16 | Allende, Isabel | Eva Luna | Literary | Mar 2019 |
17 | Amis, Kingsley | Lucky Jim | Literary | Jun 2017 |
18 | Anderson, Jessica | Tirra Lirra by the River | Literary | Aug 2015 |
19 | Arikawa, Hiro | The Travelling Cat Chronicles | Literary | Dec 2018 |
20 | Atwood, Margaret | Alias Grace | NLBC | Nov 2018 |
21 | Atwood, Margaret | The Handmaid's Tale | MRBC | Dec 2016 |
22 | Austen, Jane | Mansfield Park | Literary | Aug 2012 |
23 | Austen, Jane | Persuasion | MRBC | Jan 2013 |
24 | Austen-Leigh, James Edward | A Memoir of Jane Austen | Literary | Sep 2016 |
25 | Bacon, John U. | The Great Halifax Explosion | NLBC | Aug 2018 |
26 | Bail, Murray | Eucalyptus | Literary | Feb 2016 |
27 | Banville, John | The Untouchable | Literary | Dec 2015 |
28 | Barbusse, Henri | Under Fire | Literary | Dec 2014 |
29 | Baricco, Alessandro | Silk | Literary | Apr 2015 |
30 | Benson, E.F. | Queen Lucia | MRBC | Mar 2017 |
31 | Bradbury, Ray | Dandelion Wine | NLBC | Jul 2018 |
32 | Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 | MRBC | May 2017 |
33 | Bradbury, Ray | The Martian Chronicles | Literary | Jun 2016 |
34 | Bradford, Ernle | The Great Siege: Malta 1565 | MRBC | Nov 2017 |
35 | Brittain, Vera | Testament of Youth | Literary | Jun 2014 |
36 | Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre | MRBC | Sep 2017 |
37 | Brontë, Anne | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | NLBC | Nov 2019 |
38 | Brooks, Geraldine | Year of Wonders | Literary | Dec 2012 |
39 | Brown, Dan | The Lost Symbol | MRBC | Sep 2009 |
40 | Buchan, John | The Thirty-Nine Steps | MRBC | Jun 2010 |
41 | Bulgakov, Mikhail | The Master and Margarita | Literary | Jun 2011 |
42 | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | The Secret Garden | Literary | Oct 2018 |
43 | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | Tarzan of the Apes | NLBC | Apr 2020 |
44 | Byron, Robert | The Road to Oxiana | Literary | Mar 2018 |
45 | Camus, Albert | The Plague | Literary | Jul 2015 |
46 | Carroll, Lewis | Sylvie and Bruno | MRBC | Dec 2017 |
47 | Carver, Jeffrey A. | Neptune Crossing | MRBC | Apr 2009 |
48 | Cather, Willa | O Pioneers! | Literary | Oct 2014 |
49 | Chandler, Raymond | The Big Sleep | MRBC | May 2013 |
50 | Chandler, Raymond | The Long Goodbye | MRBC | Aug 2010 |
51 | Chang, Jung | Empress Dowager Cixi | Literary | Sep 2014 |
52 | Chesterton, G.K. | The Club of Queer Trades | Literary | Jul 2014 |
53 | Child, Lee | Killing Floor | MRBC | Sep 2010 |
54 | Christie, Agatha | The Man in the Brown Suit | NLBC | May 2020 |
55 | Christie, Agatha | The Mysterious Affair at Styles | MRBC | Sep 2009 |
56 | Clare, John | The poetry of John Clare | Literary | Jan 2016 |
57 | Collins, Wilkie | The Woman in White | MRBC | Dec 2010 |
58 | Collins, Wilkie | The Woman in White | Literary | May 2019 |
59 | Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness | MRBC | Sep 2016 |
60 | Conrad, Joseph | Under Western Eyes | Literary | May 2014 |
61 | Cope, Tim | On the Trail of Genghis Khan | MRBC | Mar 2014 |
62 | Cornwell, Bernard | Waterloo | MRBC | Jul 2015 |
63 | Dante | Inferno | Literary | Jan 2014 |
64 | Day, Elizabeth | The Party | Literary | Oct 2019 |
65 | Delany, Samuel R. | Dhalgren | MRBC | Aug 2015 |
66 | Dickens, Charles | A Christmas Carol | MRBC | Dec 2011 |
67 | Dickens, Charles | Bleak House | Literary | Jul 2011 |
68 | Dickens, Charles | Edwin Drood | NLBC | Mar 2019 |
69 | Dickens, Charles | The Cricket on the Hearth | MRBC | Dec 2014 |
70 | Didion, Joan | The Year of Magical Thinking | Literary | Sep 2019 |
71 | Dinesen, Isak | Babette's Feast | Literary | Dec 2016 |
72 | Doctorow, E.L. | Ragtime | Literary | May 2015 |
73 | Dostoevsky, Fyodor | The Eternal Husband | Literary | Apr 2012 |
74 | Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan | A Study in Scarlet | MRBC | Apr 2013 |
75 | Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan | Hound of the Baskervilles | MRBC | Dec 2008 |
76 | Druon, Maurice | The Iron King | MRBC | Jan 2015 |
77 | du Maurier, Daphne | The House on the Strand | NLBC | Oct 2018 |
78 | Duchovny, David | Bucky F&%@ing Dent | MRBC | Oct 2017 |
79 | Dumas, Alexandre | The Count of Monte Cristo | MRBC | Nov 2013 |
80 | Dumas, Alexandre | The Three Musketeers | NLBC | Jun 2018 |
81 | Edwards, Amelia | A Thousand Miles Up the Nile | MRBC | Sep 2012 |
82 | Eksteins, Modris | Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age | MRBC | Jul 2014 |
83 | Eliot, George | Middlemarch | Literary | Jul 2012 |
84 | Eliot, T.S. | Four Quartets | Literary | Jan 2015 |
85 | Eliot, T.S. | Murder in the Cathedral | Literary | Aug 2017 |
86 | Enright, Anne | The Gathering | Literary | Oct 2017 |
87 | Falkner, John Meade | Moonfleet | Literary | May 2020 |
88 | Fermor, Patrick Leigh | A Time of Gifts | Literary | Mar 2014 |
89 | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Tender is the Night | MRBC | Feb 2012 |
90 | Fitzgerald, Penelope | The Bookshop | NLBC | Jan 2020 |
91 | Forster, E.M. | A Passage to India | MRBC | Nov 2008 |
92 | Forster, E.M. | A Passage to India | Literary | Aug 2011 |
93 | Forster, E.M. | A Room With A View | MRBC | Feb 2011 |
94 | Forster, E.M. | Aspects of the Novel | Literary | Feb 2017 |
95 | Forster, E.M. | The Machine Stops | MRBC | Jan 2010 |
96 | Forsyth, Frederick | The Day Of The Jackal | MRBC | Aug 2016 |
97 | Fox, Margalit | The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code | NLBC | Jun 2019 |
98 | Frame, Janet | Owls do Cry | Literary | Jun 2020 |
99 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | MRBC | Mar 2011 |
100 | Fry, Stephen | Making History | NLBC | Apr 2018 |