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BOOKCLUB: FEATURED BOOKS AND AUTHORS

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James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to leading authors about their best known novels.

Previous Books

1998

3.5.98   Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

7.6.98   Beloved - Toni Morrison

5.7.98 Fatherland - Robert Harris

2.8.98   Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernières

6.9.98   Wild Swans - Jung Chang

4.10.98 Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt

1.11.98 Vanity Fair - William Thackery

6.12.98 Possession - AS Byatt

1999

3.1.99   1,000 Acres - Jane Smiley

7.2.99 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy / Honourable School Boy / Smiley's People - John Le Carre

7.3.99   Brazzaville Beach - William Boyd

4.4.99   Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

2.5.99   Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood

6.6.99   Snow Falling on Cedars - David Gutterson

4.7.99   Behind the Scenes At the Museum - Kate Atkinson

1.8.99   Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling

5.9.99   Private Papers - Margaret Forster

3.10.99 Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels

7.11.99 Longitude - Dava Sobel

5.12.99 Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes

2000

2.1.00   Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

6.2.00   House of Spirits - Isabel Allende

5.3.00   Larry's Party - Carol Shields

2.4.00   Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier

7.5.00   Northern Lights - Philip Pullman

4.6.00   In the Springtime of the Year - Susan Hill

2.7.00   Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai

6.8.00   Stalingrad - Anthony Beevor

3.9.00   Other People's Children - Joanna Trollope

1.10.00 Enduring Love - Ian McEwan

22.10.00 The Miller's Tale/Prologue - Geoffrey Chaucer

3.12.00 Waterland - Graham Swift

2001

7.1.01   Man and Boy - Tony Parsons

4.2.01   Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively

4.3.01   Touching the Void - Joe Simpson

1.4.01   The Witch of Exmoor - Margaret Drabble

6.5.01   The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy

3.6.01   The Shipping News - Annie Proulx

1.7.01   The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan

5.8.01   London Fields - Martin Amis

2.9.01   The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing

7.10.01 If I Don't Know, Serious Concerns, Making Cocoa - Wendy Cope for Kingsley Amis

4.11.01 Talking to the Dead - Helen Dunmore

2.12.01 About a Boy - Nick Hornby

2002

6.1.02   Knots and Crosses / The Falls - Ian Rankin

3.2.02   Empire of the Sun - JG Ballard

3.3.02   Music and Silence - Rose Tremain

7.4.02   The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

5.5.02   Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter - Mario Vargas Llosa

2.6.02   Headlong - Michael Frayn

7.7.02   See Under Love - David Grossman

4.8.02   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

1.9.02   From the Holy Mountain - William Dalrymple

6.10.02 A Dark-Adapted Eye - Barbara Vine

3.11.02 The Illustrated Mum - Jacqueline Wilson

1.12.02 Polo - Jilly Cooper

2003

5.1.03   Writing Home - Alan Bennett

2.2.03   Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

2.3.03   After Rain - William Trevor

6.4.03   An Awfully Big Adventure - Beryl Bainbridge

4.5.03   Original Sin - PD James

1.6.03   Rebecca - Sally Beauman for Daphne du Maurier

6.7.03   The Tortilla Curtain - T Coraghessan Boyle

3.8.03   Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire - Amanda Foreman

7.9.03   Down by the River - Edna O'Brien

5.10.03 Junk - Melvin Burgess

2.11.03 Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud

7.12.03 Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd

2004

4.1.04   Clinging to the Wreckage and Rumpole & the Younger Generation - John Mortimer

1.2.04   True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey

7.3.04   Fingersmith - Sarah Waters

4.4.04   Falling - Elizabeth Jane Howard

2.5.04   Nice Work - David Lodge

6.6.04   The Scold's Bridle - Minette Walters

7.7.04   Mort - Terry Pratchett

1.8.04   The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark

5.9.04   The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster

3.10.04 How the Dead Live - Will Self

7.11.04 Regeneration - Pat Barker

5.12.04 The World's Wife - Carol Ann Duffy

2005

2.1.05   White Teeth - Zadie Smith

6.2.05   A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

6.3.05   The Hippopotamus - Stephen Fry

3.4.05   Independence Day - Richard Ford

1.5.05   Small Island - Andrea Levy

5.6.05   The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾
               - Sue Townsend

3.7.05   The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
               - Dr Oliver Sacks

7.8.05   Blood Rain - Michael Dibden

4.9.05   Le Grand Meaulnes - Alain-Fournier
               [Michèle Roberts was our guide]

2.10.05 The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi

6.11.05 The Gunpowder Plot - Antonia Fraser

4.12.05  We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates

2006

1.1.06   Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser

5.2.06   Holidays in Hell - P.J. O'Rourke

5.3.06   We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver

2.4.06   Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman

7.5.06   Hotel World - Ali Smith

4.6.06   Time to Depart - Lindsey Davis

2.7.06   Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
            - John Berendt

6.8.06   Rum Punch - Elmore Leonard

3.9.06   English Passengers - Matthew Kneale

1.10.06  Old Filth - Jane Gardam

5.11.06  Malignant Sadness - Lewis Wolpert

3.12.06  Miss Garnet's Angel - Salley Vickers

2007

7.1.07 The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen

4.2.07 The Mermaids Singing - Val McDermid

4.3.07   Eleanor of Aquitaine - Alison Weir

1.4.07   What A Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe

6.5.07   My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult

3.06.07 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

1.07.07 The Female Eunuch - Germaine Greer

5.08.07 The Remorseful Day - Colin Dexter

2.09.07 Tales of City - Armistead Maupin

7.10.07 Joseph Knight - James Robertson

4.11.07 The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

2.12.07 Schindler’s Ark - Thomas Keneally

2008

6.01.08 Alice Sebold -The Lovely Bones

3.02.08 The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant

2.03.08 William Pitt the Younger, A Biography
               - William Hague

6.04.08 Simon Armitage - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

4.05.08 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun

8.06.08 Jan Morris - Venice

6.07.08 ÅsneSeierstad - The Bookseller of Kabul

3.08.08 Colm Toibin - The Master

7.09.08 Gore Vidal - Point to Point Navigation

5.10.08 Michael Morpurgo - Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea

2.11.08 Fay Wheldon - The Cloning of Joanna May

7.12.08 Amitav Ghosh - The Glass Palace

2009

4.01.09 Oliver James - Affluenza

1.02.09 BernardCornwell – The Last Kingdom

1.03.09 A.L.Kennedy – Day

5.04.09 Andrew Motion - Public Property