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September, 2009

  1. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (1)
  2. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2)
  3. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (6)
  4. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (5)
  5. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (4)
  6. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (7)
  7. Summertime, J.M.Coetzee (n.a.)
  8. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (10)
  9. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (16)
  10. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (13)
  11. Salmonella Men on Planet Porno, Tsutsui Yasutaka (15)
  12. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (11)
  13. 2666, Roberto Bolaño (25)
  14. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie (37)
  15. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (19)

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August, 2009

  1. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (1)
  2. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2)
  3. Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon (n.a.)
  4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (7)
  5. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (10)
  6. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (4)
  7. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (3)
  8. The Girl who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson (n.a.)
  9. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (8)
  10. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (6)
  11. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (12)
  12. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (9)
  13. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (21)
  14. Kafka on the Shore, Murakami Haruki (11)
  15. Salmonella Men on Planet Porno, Tsutsui Yasutaka (5)

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July, 2009

  1. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (1)
  2. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2)
  3. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (3)
  4. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (5)
  5. Salmonella Men on Planet Porno, Tsutsui Yasutaka (13)
  6. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (9)
  7. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (7)
  8. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (12)
  9. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (4)
  10. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (8)
  11. Kafka on the Shore, Murakami Haruki (15)
  12. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (10)
  13. The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell (14)
  14. Night Train to Lisbon, Pascal Mercier (21)
  15. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (16)

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June, 2009

  1. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (1)
  2. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (5)
  3. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (4)
  4. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (6)
  5. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (2)
  6. Heroes like Us, Thomas Brussig (-)
  7. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (12)
  8. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (3)
  9. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (24)
  10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (15)
  11. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (9)
  12. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (8)
  13. Salmonella Men on Planet Porno, Tsutsui Yasutaka (16)
  14. The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell (7)
  15. Kafka on the Shore, Murakami Haruki (18)

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May, 2009

  1. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (1)
  2. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (3)
  3. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2)
  4. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (5)
  5. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (6)
  6. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (26)
  7. The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell (7)
  8. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (4)
  9. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (14)
  10. Atonement, Ian McEwan (9)
  11. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (13)
  12. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (12)
  13. Rock 'n' Roll, Tom Stoppard (43)
  14. The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides (37)
  15. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (20)

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April, 2009

  1. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (1)
  2. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (4)
  3. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (13)
  4. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (8)
  5. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (10)
  6. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (5)
  7. The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell (2)
  8. The Philanthropist, Christopher Hampton (60)
  9. Atonement, Ian McEwan (12)
  10. Wetlands, Charlotte Roche (36)
  11. Proof, David Auburn (21)
  12. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (7)
  13. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (14)
  14. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (6)
  15. False Economy, Alan Beattie (n.a.)

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March, 2009

  1. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (2)
  2. The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell (4)
  3. Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo (n.a.)
  4. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (8)
  5. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (7)
  6. Q & A, Vikas Swarup(1)
  7. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (5)
  8. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (9)
  9. Salmonella Men on Planet Porno, Tsutsui Yasutaka (6)
  10. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (10)
  11. King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild (12)
  12. Atonement, Ian McEwan (16)
  13. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (3)
  14. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (13)
  15. Night Train to Lisbon, Pascal Mercier (26)

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February, 2009

  1. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (1)
  2. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (2)
  3. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (3)
  4. The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell (-)
  5. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (4)
  6. Salmonella Men on Planet Porno, Tsutsui Yasutaka (5)
  7. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (6)
  8. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (9)
  9. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (7)
  10. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (12)
  11. 2666, Roberto Bolaño (8)
  12. King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild (23)
  13. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (13)
  14. Proof, David Auburn (28)
  15. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson (11)

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January, 2009

  1. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (9)
  2. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (2)
  3. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (1)
  4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (5)
  5. Salmonella Men on Planet Porno, Tsutsui Yasutaka (13)
  6. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (6)
  7. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (4)
  8. 2666, Roberto Bolaño (3)
  9. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (8)
  10. Every Good Boy Deserves a Favour, Tom Stoppard (81)
  11. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson (16)
  12. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (7)
  13. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (11)
  14. Atonement, Ian McEwan (15)
  15. The Wittgenstein House, Bernhard Leitner (64)

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December, 2008

  1. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (1)
  2. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (2)
  3. 2666, Roberto Bolaño (4)
  4. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (3)
  5. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (5)
  6. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (7)
  7. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (6)
  8. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (10)
  9. The Invention of Love, Tom Stoppard (24)
  10. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (31)
  11. Saturday, Ian McEwan (12)
  12. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (8)
  13. Salmonella Men on Planet Porno, Tsutsui Yasutaka (16)
  14. Proof, David Auburn (9)
  15. Atonement, Ian McEwan (11)

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November, 2008

  1. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (1)
  2. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (2)
  3. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (3)
  4. 2666, Roberto Bolaño (n.a.)
  5. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (7)
  6. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (9)
  7. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (5)
  8. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (10)
  9. Proof, David Auburn (8)
  10. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (6)
  11. Atonement, Ian McEwan (11)
  12. Saturday, Ian McEwan (13)
  13. Rock 'n' Roll, Tom Stoppard (16)
  14. Kafka on the Shore, Murakami Haruki (12)
  15. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson (17)

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October, 2008

  1. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (1)
  2. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (8)
  3. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (3)
  4. Salmonella Men on Planet Porno, Tsutsui Yasutaka (6)
  5. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (7)
  6. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (13)
  7. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (15)
  8. Proof, David Auburn (14)
  9. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (16)
  10. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (11)
  11. Atonement, Ian McEwan (10)
  12. Kafka on the Shore, Murakami Haruki (17)
  13. Saturday, Ian McEwan (12)
  14. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (42)
  15. Stuff Happens, David Hare (2)

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September, 2008

  1. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (1)
  2. Stuff Happens, David Hare (2)
  3. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (6)
  4. Anathem, Neal Stephenson (n.a.)
  5. Indignation, Philip Roth (n.a.)
  6. Salmonella Men on Planet Porno, Tsutsui Yasutaka (3)
  7. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (5)
  8. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (90)
  9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (n.a.)
  10. Atonement, Ian McEwan (12)
  11. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (7)
  12. Saturday, Ian McEwan (8)
  13. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (4)
  14. Proof, David Auburn (32)
  15. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (14)

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August, 2008

  1. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (1)
  2. Stuff Happens, David Hare (20)
  3. Salmonella Men on Planet Porno, Tsutsui Yasutaka (6)
  4. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (4)
  5. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2)
  6. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (3)
  7. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (9)
  8. Saturday, Ian McEwan (12)
  9. Kafka on the Shore, Murakami Haruki (8)
  10. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (7)
  11. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (32)
  12. Atonement, Ian McEwan (14)
  13. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (10)
  14. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (11)
  15. Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki (15)

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July, 2008

  1. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (7)
  2. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (4)
  3. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (17)
  4. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (3)
  5. King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild (20)
  6. Salmonella Men on Planet Porno, Tsutsui Yasutaka (16)
  7. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (6)
  8. Kafka on the Shore, Murakami Haruki (13)
  9. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (11)
  10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (15)
  11. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (9)
  12. Saturday, Ian McEwan (8)
  13. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Murakami Haruki (n.a.)
  14. Atonement, Ian McEwan (10)
  15. Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki (12)

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June, 2008

  1. Stuff Happens, David Hare (1)
  2. The Two Lolitas, Michael Maar (20)
  3. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2)
  4. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (3)
  5. Blue Remembered Hills, Dennis Potter (61)
  6. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (4)
  7. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (-)
  8. Saturday, Ian McEwan (11)
  9. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (6)
  10. Atonement, Ian McEwan (9)
  11. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (10)
  12. Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki (19)
  13. Kafka on the Shore, Murakami Haruki (17)
  14. The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides (25)
  15. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (22)

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May, 2008

  1. Stuff Happens, David Hare (1)
  2. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2)
  3. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (4)
  4. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (6)
  5. Spies, Michael Frayn (12)
  6. Faster than the Speed of Light, João Magueijo (-)
  7. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (11)
  8. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (3)
  9. Atonement, Ian McEwan (5)
  10. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (10)
  11. Saturday, Ian McEwan (7)
  12. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (14)
  13. Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky (13)
  14. Proof, David Auburn (8)
  15. King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild (9)

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April, 2008

  1. Stuff Happens, David Hare (1)
  2. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2)
  3. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (6)
  4. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (5)
  5. Atonement, Ian McEwan (3)
  6. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (8)
  7. Saturday, Ian McEwan (12)
  8. Proof, David Auburn (14)
  9. King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild (9)
  10. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (11)
  11. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (7)
  12. Spies, Michael Frayn (15)
  13. Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky (10)
  14. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (19)
  15. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (17)

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March, 2008

  1. Stuff Happens, David Hare (1)
  2. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (5)
  3. Atonement, Ian McEwan (4)
  4. 'A Problem from Hell', Samantha Power (18)
  5. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (6)
  6. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2)
  7. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (3)
  8. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (10)
  9. King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild (9)
  10. Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky (11)
  11. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (12)
  12. Saturday, Ian McEwan (8)
  13. Rock 'n' Roll, Tom Stoppard (7)
  14. Proof, David Auburn (13)
  15. Spies, Michael Frayn (15)

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February, 2008

  1. Stuff Happens, David Hare (1)
  2. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (3)
  3. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (4)
  4. Atonement, Ian McEwan (2)
  5. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (8)
  6. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (6)
  7. Rock 'n' Roll, Tom Stoppard (7)
  8. Saturday, Ian McEwan (9)
  9. King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild (21)
  10. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (12)
  11. Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky (11)
  12. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (10)
  13. Proof, David Auburn (17)
  14. Jumpers, Tom Stoppard (32)
  15. Spies, Michael Frayn (5)

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January, 2008

  1. Stuff Happens, David Hare (1)
  2. Atonement, Ian McEwan (2)
  3. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (3)
  4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (5)
  5. Spies, Michael Frayn (13)
  6. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (4)
  7. Rock 'n' Roll, Tom Stoppard (6)
  8. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (7)
  9. Saturday, Ian McEwan (9)
  10. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (8)
  11. Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky (14)
  12. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (10)
  13. Amsterdam, Ian McEwan (19)
  14. Kafka on the Shore, Murakami Haruki (17)
  15. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (35)

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December, 2007

  1. Stuff Happens, David Hare (1)
  2. Atonement, Ian McEwan (9)
  3. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (4)
  4. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (6)
  5. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (3)
  6. Rock 'n' Roll, Tom Stoppard (5)
  7. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2)
  8. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (9)
  9. Saturday, Ian McEwan (11)
  10. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (10)
  11. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (15)
  12. The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman (19)
  13. Spies, Michael Frayn (7)
  14. Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky (13)
  15. Proof, David Auburn (12)

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November, 2007

  1. Stuff Happens, David Hare (1)
  2. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (4)
  3. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (2)
  4. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (9)
  5. Rock 'n' Roll, Tom Stoppard (5)
  6. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (3)
  7. Spies, Michael Frayn (7)
  8. Atonement, Ian McEwan (8)
  9. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (6)
  10. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (13)
  11. Saturday, Ian McEwan (10)
  12. Proof, David Auburn (12)
  13. Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky (11)
  14. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (21)
  15. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (31)

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