The books – 2012

  1. Fun Home – Alison Bechdel
  2. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
  3. Wild Swim – Kate Rew
  4. My Spy – Maria Ferrarella
  5. Signal to Noise – Neil Gaiman and Dave Mackean (Graphic novel)
  6. Pendennis – William Makepeace Thackeray
  7. Pure – Andrew Miller
  8. Flush – Virginia Woolf
  9. The Woman in Black – Susan Hill
  10. The Doll and other stories – Daphne du Maurier
  11. The Paris Book of Short Stories – Helen Constantine
  12. Swimming – Nicola Keegan
  13. The Chalk Circle Man – Fred Vargas
  14. Play to Kill – PJ Tracey
  15. The Library Book – The Reading Agency
  16. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: No Future for You (Graphic novel) – Brian K Vaughan et al
  17. City of Falling Angels – John Berendt
  18. Essential artists: The Rothko Book by Bonnie Clearwater
  19. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
  20. The Aspern Papers/The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
  21. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt
  22. Daphne – Justine Picardie
  23. The Psychopath Test – Jon Ronson
  24. The End of Mr Y – Scarlett Thomas
  25. My Story by Lewis Hamilton
  26. Britain’s Tree Story – Julian Hight
  27. Our Tragic Universe – Scarlett Thomas
  28. The Portrait – Iain Pears
  29. Case Histories – Kate Atkinson
  30. Burning Chrome – William Gibson
  31. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
  32. The Forest for the Trees: An editor’s advice to writers – Betsy Learner
  33. Death comes to Pemberley – PD James
  34. Bodywork – Sara Paretsky
  35. Labyrinth – Kate Mosse
  36. Las Adventures de Inspector Cabillot – Diego Mariani
  37. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
  38. Granta 114: Aliens
  39. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
  40. The Meme Machine – Susan Blackmore
  41. Meetings with Remarkable Trees – Thomas Pakenham
  42. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs
  43. Beechcombings – Richard Mabey
  44. St Ives Artists: Alfred Wallis by Matthew Gale
  45. Pompeii by Mary Beard
  46. Before I Go To Sleep – SJ Watson
  47. Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
  48. Fiction First Aid by Raymond Obstfeld
  49. Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown
  50. This Is Not The Way We Came In by Daryl Scroggins
  51. Master and God by Lindsey Davis
  52. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  53. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson
  54. Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
  55. The Crimson Rooms by Katharine McMahon
  56. Fooling Houdini: Adventures in the world of magic by Alex Stone
  57. Across Many Mountains by Yangzom Brauen
  58. A Series of Unfortunate Events 1: The Bad Beginning – Lemony Snicket
  59. A Crown of Lights by Phil Rickman
  60. Fenwomen by Mary Chamberlain
  61. North Sea Surge by Michael Pollard
  62. 60 Degrees North by Michael Ridpath
  63. Exploration of a Drowned Landscape – Charles Thomas
  64. The Old Ways by Robert MacFarlane
  65. Midnight Plus One by Gavin Lyall