51stories

Non-fiction – highly recommended:

Christopher Hitchens: Arguably (several essays)

Caitlin Moran – How to be a Woman

Francine Prose – Reading like a writer

Fiction:

William Boyd – Waiting for Sunrise

Charles Cumming – A Spy by Nature and The Spanish Game (The Trinity Six)

Charles Cumming – Typhoon

Esi Edugyan – Half Blood Blues

Anne Enrigth – The Forgotten Waltz

Georgina Harding – Painter of Silence

Robert Harris – The Fear Index

Susan Hill – A Kind Man

Anne Holt – Punishment

David Ignatius – The Increment

Stephen King: 11.22.63

John Lanchester – Capital

Simon Lelic: The Facility

Tim Lott – Rumours of a Hurricane

Andrew Miller – Pure (A Historical Novel)

Madeline Miller – The Song of Achilles

Cynthia Ozick – Foreign Bodies

Henry Porter – A Spy’s Life

Richard Powers: Generosity

S.J. Watson: Before I go to sleep