- Edwin A. Abbott – Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
- David Abulafia – The Great Sea
- Joan Aiken – The Moon’s Revenge
- Lola A. Åkerström – Lagom: The Swedish Secret of Living Well
- Mitch Albom – Tuesdays With Morrie
- Alaa Al Aswany – The Yacoubian Building
- Svetlana Alexievich – Chernobyl Prayer
- Dante Aligheri – The Divine Comedy
- Nadeem Aslam – Maps for Lost Lovers
- Paul Atterbury – Tickets Please!
- Jane Austen – Pride and prejudice
- J.G. Ballard – Concrete Island
- J.G. Ballard – The Drowned World
- Dr Glenn A. Bassett – WordPlay
- Georges Bataille – Theory of Religion
- Stephen Baum – One Life or The Lives of Chester Knowles
- Stephen Baum – The Phantom Speaks
- Stephen Baum – Up in the Bronx
- John Baxter – A Pound of Paper
- M.C. Beaton – The Hamish Macbeth series.
- Antony Beevor – The Second World War
- Christy Birmingham – Versions of the Self
- Enid Blyton – Five on a Treasure Island
- Melvyn Bragg – 12 Books That Changed The World
- Raymond Briggs – Gentleman Jim
- Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights
- Rice Broocks – Man, Myth, Messiah
- Dan Brown – The da Vinci Code
- A.S. Byatt – The Children’s Book
- Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities
- Italo Calvino – The Castle of Crossed Destinies
- Albert Camus – The Fall
- Albert Camus – The Rebel
- Bo Carpelan – Bow Island
- J. L. Carr – A Month in the Country
- George Carrión – Bookshops
- Lewis Carroll – Alice in wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
- D.W. Carver – Desperation
- D.W. Carver – Nightmares and Other Therapy
- Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye
- Raymond Chandler – Playback
- Agatha Christie – Elephants Can Remember
- Agatha Christie – Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
- Arthur C. Clarke – 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Arthur C. Clarke – Childhood’s End
- Arthur C. Clarke – Rendezvous with Rama
- Andrew Collins – Gateway to Atlantis
- Wilkie Collins – Basil
- Nicholas Conley – The Cage Legacy
- Nicholas Conley – Clay Tongue
- Nicholas Conley – Intraterrestrial
- Nicholas Conley – Pale Highway
- Charlie Connelly – Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around the Shipping Forecast
- Richard Corfield – The Silent Landscape
- Nicholas Crane – Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet
- Helen Cresswell – The Watchers: A Mystery at Alton Towers
- Helen Cresswell – Moondial
- Helen Cresswell – The Secret World of Polly Flint
- Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture
- Barry Cunliffe – The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek
- Julie E. Czerneda – A Thousand Words For Stranger
- G. W. Dahlquist – The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
- Mark Z. Danielewski – House of Leaves
- Mike Dash – Batavia’s Graveyard
- Seyi David – Cydonia: Rise of the Fallen
- Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities
- Charles Dickens – Christmas Books
- Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
- Charles Dickens – The Uncommercial Traveller
- Penny Dolan – The Tale of Rickety Hall
- Helen Dunmore – The Greatcoat
- Umberto Eco – Baudolino
- Umberto Eco – Foucault’s Pendulum
- Umberto Eco – On Literature
- David Emery – Full Metal Cardigan: Adventures on the Front Line of Social Work
- Jeffrey Eugenides – The Virgin Suicides
- Anne Fadiman – Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
- Brian Fagan – A Little History of Archaeology
- Michael S. Fedison – The Eye-Dancers
- Michael S. Fedison – The Singularity Wheel
- Mike Filey – I Remember Sunnyside: The Rise and Fall of a Magical Era
- F. Scott Fitzgerald – Tender is the Night
- Ken Follett – The Pillars of the Earth
- Laura Franklin – Rise from the Ashes Part One: Lena’s Story
- Stephen Fry – Making History
Nice to see my name up there ahead of Albert Camus and Lewis Carroll. (OK, Baum gives preferential seating). Hoping to send you the latest release of One Life soon!
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I look forward to that! I shall finish up with my outstanding books then so as to have a clear run at it. If only your name was Mr Aardvark then you would have been number one, food for thought perhaps.
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As a kid I yearned for a Z name like Xavier Zitt, so I could sit in the back with the cool kids. No such luck.
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But where are the cool kids now? I wager they are eating cheese and that’s about it. Thee would have been something more witty there….but it just never happened sadly.
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