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Ranking all-time shortlisted and longlisted books (and winners)
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Pos, Book, Average, Adjusted, Count, First Places
1, A Fine Balance, 8, 26, 7, 5
2, Earthly Powers, 5, 63, 4, 1
3, Ducks, Newburyport, 5, 74, 4,
4, Harvest, 26, 89, 9, 1
5, Summertime, 35, 96, 5,
6, The Colony, 16, 96, 4,
7, Arthur & George, 28, 98, 6,
8, A Month in the Country, 16, 102, 10, 1
9, Fingersmith, 49, 124, 6, 1
10, Cat's Eye, 40, 128, 5,
11, Amongst Women, 12, 129, 3,
12, The Black Prince, 19, 130, 4,
13, The Blackwater Lightship, 29, 131, 4,
14, Never Let Me Go, 28, 132, 16, 1
15, Empire of the Sun, 36, 133, 5,
16, Lila, 37, 134, 6, 1
17, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, 19, 135, 4,
18, The Handmaid's Tale, 27, 137, 15, 1
19, Cloud Atlas, 25, 141, 15,
20, How to Be Both, 35, 146, 10,
21, The Master, 50, 146, 6,
22, Darkmans, 61, 151, 6, 1
23, The Mirror & The Light, 6, 152, 2,
24, In a Strange Room, 49, 157, 6,
25, The Garden of Evening Mists, 28, 158, 7,
26, Umbrella, 17, 159, 4,
27, Lanny, 34, 159, 6,
28, This Thing of Darkness, 14, 161, 3, 1
29, In Ascension, 14, 167, 2,
30, Purple Hibiscus, 37, 169, 6,
31, Apeirogon, 27, 171, 3,
32, On Beauty, 30, 173, 10,
33, Orfeo, 36, 174, 6,
34, Waterland, 11, 174, 2,
35, Oryx and Crake, 42, 175, 11,
36, The Spinning Heart, 52, 176, 5,
37, Mother's Milk, 51, 177, 6,
38, The Moor's Last Sigh, 64, 178, 4,
39, Autumn, 25, 179, 11,
40, Prophet Song, 15, 179, 2,
41, Morality Play, 39, 182, 3,
42, Spies, 37, 183, 4,
43, Bewilderment, 37, 184, 3,
44, Black Swan Green, 37, 184, 7,
45, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, 38, 186, 8,
46, The Secret Scripture, 55, 187, 6,
47, Solar Bones, 41, 188, 9,
48, The Moor's account, 51, 189, 5,
49, Trust, 54, 190, 5,
50, A Little Life, 39, 194, 12, 2
51, The Gift of Rain, 27, 195, 2,
52, The Night Watch, 67, 197, 5,
53, Swimming Home, 47, 198, 8,
54, The Sisters Brothers, 45, 198, 7,
55, Elmet, 44, 198, 8,
56, An Artist of the Floating World, 57, 200, 6,
57, Maps for Lost Lovers, 7, 200, 1,
58, A Long Long Way, 51, 201, 4,
59, The Dog, 27, 203, 3,
60, His Bloody Project, 30, 204, 11,
61, The Blazing World, 39, 206, 9, 1
62, A Passage North, 41, 207, 3,
63, Rising, 7, 208, 1,
64, Do not say we have Nothing, 36, 208, 11,
65, Rumours of Rain, 45, 212, 3,
66, The Overstory, 53, 212, 4,
67, Shalimar the Clown, 74, 213, 5,
68, Lost Children Archive, 43, 213, 5,
69, Reservoir 13, 35, 214, 10,
70, The Comfort of Strangers, 14, 214, 2,
71, Normal People, 42, 215, 7,
72, Hot Milk, 40, 215, 13,
73, An Awfully Big Adventure, 38, 215, 3,
74, Snowleg, 7, 216, 1,
75, The Beggar Maid, 64, 217, 3,
76, Skippy Dies, 35, 217, 4,
77, The Testament of Gideon Mack, 18, 218, 1,
78, History of the Rain, 50, 218, 3,
79, A Five-Year Sentence, 59, 218, 5,
80, Flaubert's Parrot, 62, 218, 5,
81, Small Things Like These, 41, 219, 4,
82, The Little Stranger, 51, 219, 7,
83, The Vivisector, 48, 219, 2, 1
84, The Children's Book, 21, 219, 3,
85, An Insular Possession, 46, 219, 2,
86, 4 3 2 1, 49, 219, 7,
87, A Spool of Blue Thread, 44, 221, 10,
88, The Glass Room, 55, 221, 8,
89, Everything Under, 34, 221, 3,
90, The Lighthouse, 85, 223, 6,
91, Atonement, 26, 223, 13,
92, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, 47, 226, 8,
93, Night Boat to Tangier, 63, 230, 5,
94, Self Help, 6, 231, 1,
95, Quarantine, 78, 231, 4,
96, Crossing the Lines, 11, 232, 1,
97, A Bend in the River, 43, 232, 3,
98, The Trees, 61, 233, 5,
99, A Son of War, 12, 236, 1,
100, So Many Ways to Begin, 56, 239, 4,
101, The Map of Love, 53, 240, 2,
102, The Secret River, 79, 240, 5,
103, The Testament of Mary, 74, 241, 8,
104, The Lives of Others, 45, 241, 3,
105, Half-Blood Blues, 71, 242, 5,
106, The Bookshop, 83, 243, 6,
107, We Need New Names, 48, 243, 7,
108, Sea of Poppies, 87, 243, 5,
109, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, 54, 244, 11,
110, According to Queeney, 35, 244, 1,
111, Brooklyn, 57, 245, 9,
112, The Man Who Saw Everything, 62, 246, 3,
113, A Tale for the Time Being, 48, 246, 10,
114, Home Fire, 45, 246, 7,
115, The Story of Lucy Gault, 45, 246, 3,
116, Clear Light of Day, 57, 247, 3,
117, The Year of the Runaways, 83, 247, 5,
118, When We Were Orphans, 59, 248, 8,
119, Any Human Heart, 87, 249, 4,
120, The Green Road, 64, 249, 6,
121, The Chimes, 17, 251, 2,
122, Alias Grace, 49, 251, 9, 1
123, Work Like Any Other, 71, 254, 5,
124, Washington Black, 67, 254, 5,
125, The Wake, 70, 255, 6,
126, The Long Take, 47, 256, 3,
127, A Fraction of the Whole, 45, 257, 4,
128, The Road to Lichfield, 73, 258, 3,
129, Hotel World, 37, 258, 3,
130, The Good Doctor, 84, 260, 6,
131, Satin Island, 82, 261, 8,
132, Saturday, 69, 261, 7,
133, Good Behaviour, 24, 262, 1,
134, The Accidental, 80, 262, 6,
135, The North Water, 43, 264, 8,
136, Great Granny Webster, 36, 264, 3,
137, Study for Obedience, 64, 266, 2,
138, Maps of our Spectacular Bodies, 55, 266, 4,
139, Netherland, 80, 267, 6,
140, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, 64, 267, 9,
141, 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World, 55, 267, 3,
142, Room, 53, 268, 10,
143, I'll Go to Bed at Noon, 104, 268, 4,
144, Slow Man, 84, 268, 4,
145, Days Without End, 42, 270, 8,
146, My Name is Lucy Barton, 44, 270, 15,
147, Mister Pip, 88, 270, 5,
148, The Folding Star, 35, 271, 3,
149, The House of Doors, 52, 271, 1,
150, The Lowland, 52, 273, 9,
151, Be Near Me, 61, 274, 2,
152, Dorian, 79, 274, 2,
153, The Quickening Maze, 80, 278, 6,
154, Time's Arrow, 61, 278, 5,
155, Did you ever have a family?, 47, 279, 8,
156, Astonishing Splashes of Colour, 23, 279, 1,
157, The Many, 60, 279, 10,
158, Case Study, 73, 282, 4,
159, On Chesil Beach, 84, 282, 9,
160, Chatterton, 33, 283, 2,
161, Headlong, 96, 284, 4,
162, On Canaan's Side, 102, 285, 5,
163, China Room, 85, 285, 4,
164, Small World, 45, 286, 2,
165, Transatlantic, 23, 286, 2,
166, Reef, 82, 287, 3,
167, The Amber Spyglass, 39, 288, 6,
168, The Shadow King, 92, 291, 3,
169, C, 93, 293, 6,
170, Klara and the Sun, 91, 293, 4,
171, Glory, 60, 294, 3,
172, According to Mark, 58, 296, 2,
173, Love and Other Thought Experiments, 50, 297, 2,
174, The Yips, 106, 298, 3,
175, History of Wolves, 64, 298, 10,
176, God on the Rocks, 104, 299, 4,
177, Shame, 73, 300, 4,
178, The Underground Railroad, 55, 301, 11,
179, Trespass, 57, 302, 3,
180, The Nice and the Good, 75, 303, 2,
181, Notes on a Scandal, 58, 303, 4,
182, Frankie & Stankie, 29, 303, 1,
183, From a Low and Quiet Sea, 74, 304, 4,
184, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, 44, 304, 11,
185, In Our Mad and Furious City, 69, 306, 5,
186, The Welsh Girl, 58, 306, 3,
187, Warlight, 86, 307, 4,
188, Pearl, 68, 307, 2,
189, Unless, 87, 307, 3,
190, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, 94, 308, 2,
191, All That Man Is, 62, 308, 11,
192, Second Place, 73, 309, 4,
193, The Clothes on Their Backs, 57, 309, 3,
194, Lies of Silence, 102, 309, 4,
195, The Fishermen, 89, 310, 6,
196, The Book of Evidence, 67, 310, 2,
197, The Good Apprentice, 68, 312, 2,
198, Clear: A Transparent Novel, 89, 312, 4,
199, Quartet in Autumn, 104, 313, 3,
200, number9dream, 86, 313, 7,
201, The Fortune Men, 80, 313, 3,
202, Paradise, 53, 314, 3,
203, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, 106, 314, 5,
204, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, 52, 314, 4,
205, The Stranger's Child, 52, 315, 3,
206, Eileen, 62, 317, 14,
207, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, 76, 318, 4,
208, Quichotte, 89, 319, 2,
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2 A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr (1980)
3 Dorian by Will Self (2002)
4 Small World by David Lodge (1984)
5 The Dog by Joseph O'Neill (2014)
6 Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller (2003)
7 The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth (2014)
8 The Yips by Nicola Barker (2012)
9 His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet (2016)
10 Harvest by Jim Crace (2013)
11 Orfeo by Richard Powers (2014)
12 The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt (2014)
13 How to Be Both by Ali Smith (2014)
14 Umbrella by Will Self (2012)
15 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (2004)
16 The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan (2013)
17 Nice Work by David Lodge (1988)
18 Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd (1987)
19 Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard (1984)*
20 Satin Island by Tom McCarthy (2015)
21 Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (2016)
22 Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer (1993)*
23 Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn (2006)
24 An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge (1990)*
25 We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (2013)
26 The North Water by Ian McGuire (2016)
27 The Van by Roddy Doyle (1991) *
28 Clear by Nicola Barker (2004)
29 The Public Image by Muriel Spark (1969)
30 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2004)
31-57 not sorted ranking
58 The Kills by Richard House (2013)
59 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1986)
60 The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (2013)
* These I read in my teens so my idea of what I think about them is very approximate indeed.
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1 Possession
2 Midnight's Children
3 A Fine Balance
4 Earthly Powers
5 The Sea, the Sea
6 Bring Up the Bodies
7 Reservoir 13
8 The Black Prince
9 Autumn
10 A Month In The Country
11 The Bone People
12 Maps For Lost Lovers
13 The Remains of the Day
14 The Blazing World
15 Milkman
16 Ducks, Newburyport
17 The Mirror & the Light
18 Troubles
19 Prophet Song
20 Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
21 Staying On
22 Orfeo
23 Waterland
24 The Story of Lucy Gault
25 Alias Grace
26 If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
27 The Testament of Gideon Mack
28 The Children's Book
29 The Blind Assassin
30 Amongst Women
31 The Line of Beauty
32 Wolf Hall
33 After Sappho
34 Do Not Say We Have Nothing
35 In Ascension
36 The Lives of Others
37 Lanny
38 Apeirogon
39 The Chimes
40 Lost Children Archive
41 Black Swan Green
42 This Thing of Darkness
43 Saville
44 Shuggie Bain
45 According to Mark
46 Swimming Home
47 Small Things Like These
48 The Garden of Evening Mists
49 Moon Tiger
50 According to Queeney
51 Heat and Dust
52 The Green Road
53 The Narrow Road to the Deep North
54 Arthur & George
55 A Long Long Way
56 Frankisstein
57 Everything Under
58 Cat's Eye
59 The Gift of Rain
60 The Colony
61 In Our Mad and Furious City
62 Purple Hibiscus
63 Grace Notes
64 Spies
65 Rumours Of Rain
66 The Book of Evidence
67 Home Fire
68 The Ghost Road
69 An Instant in the Wind
70 The Good Apprentice
71 The God of Small Things
72 The House of Doors
73 On Beauty
74 Love and Other Thought Experiments
75 Clear Light of Day
76 The Luminaries
77 True History of the Kelly Gang
78 A Tale for the Time being
79 Summertime
80 Days Without End
81 The English Patient
82 Unexploded
83 Hotel World
84 The Promise
85 A Brief History of Seven Killings
86 Did You Ever Have a Family?
87 The Gate of Angels
88 Hot Milk
89 Shame
90 The Secret River
91 An Awfully Big Adventure
92 Pearl
93 So Many Ways To Begin
94 Bewilderment
95 Life & Times of Michael K
96 A Passage North
97 The Siege of Krishnapur
98 Atonement
99 The Glass Room
100 How to Be Both
101 Knowledge of Angels
102 The Secret Scripture
103 How Late it was, How late
104 Morality Play
105 Cloud Atlas
106 The Blackwater Lightship
107 Trust
108 Half-Blood Blues
109 Every Man for Himself
110 History of the Rain
111 Second Place
112 Sacred Hunger
113 Master Georgie
114 Confederates
115 An Insular Possession
116 The Sense of an Ending
117 Normal People
118 The Long Take
119 In a Strange Room
120 Gossip from the Forest
121 Be Near Me
122 The Inheritance of Loss
123 The Ruby in her Navel
124 The Map of Love
125 Lila
126 The Vivisector
127 Skippy Dies
128 The Battle of Pollocks Crossing
129 The Overstory
130 His Bloody Project
131 Study for Obedience
132 The Man who Saw Everything
133 Girl, Woman, Other
134 The Bottle Factory Outing
135 My name is Lucy Barton
136 Loitering with Intent
137 Night Boat to Tangier
138 Jigsaw
139 The Fortune Men
140 An Artist of the Floating World
141 Restoration
142 Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel
143 Harvest
144 Illywhacker
145 From a Low and Quiet Sea
146 Last Orders
147 Eva Trout
148 Glory
149 The Sirian Experiments
150 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World
151 The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
152 The Handmaid's Tale
153 Flaubert's Parrot
154 Kalooki Nights
155 The Wake
156 Solar Bones
157 Case Study
158 The Road to Lichfield
159 The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
160 Sour Sweet
161 The Nice and the Good
162 Theft: A Love Story
163 The Trees
164 This Other Eden
165 Quichotte
166 Fasting, Feasting
167 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
168 The Great Fire
169 The Redundancy of Courage
170 Impossible Object
171 We are all completely beside ourselves
172 Great Circle
173 An Orchestra of Minorities
174 The Driver's Seat
175 The Sweetness of Water
176 No One is Talking About This
177 The Night Watch
178 An Island
179 The Public Image
180 The Mars Room
181 John Brown's Body
182 4 3 2 1
183 How to Build a Boat
184 Work Like any Other
185 The Elected Member
186 To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
187 The Sea
188 The Moor's Account
189 No Country for Young Men
190 Lincoln in the Bardo
191 Dorian
192 The Quickening Maze
193 When We Were Orphans
194 A Five-Year Sentence
195 Unless
196 All the Little Bird-Hearts
197 The Master
198 The Beggar Maid
199 The Satanic Verses
200 Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
201 In a Free State
202 The Children of Dynmouth
203 Solomon Gursky was here
204 Light Perpetual
205 The Spinning Heart
206 Never Let Me Go
207 Philida
208 The Beginning of Spring
209 A Spell of Good Things
210 Elmet
211 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
212 Carry Me Down
213 Nightcrawling
214 Mother's Milk
215 The Reluctant Fundamentalist
216 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
217 Such a Long Journey
218 In the Country of Men
219 Reef
220 Schindler's Ark
221 Shroud
222 The Deposition of Father McGreevy
223 Anthills of the Savannah
224 The People's Act of Love
225 Beside The Ocean of Time
226 Reading Turgenev
227 The Moor's Last Sigh
228 The Dark Room
229 The Fishermen
230 In the Fold
231 Beyond Black
232 Lies of Silence
233 China Room
234 Clear: A Transparent Novel
235 Swing Time
236 Oryx and Crake
237 Mister Pip
238 From A to X
239 Any Human Heart
240 Quarantine
241 Washington Black
242 Quartet in Autumn
243 The Shadow King
244 All that man is
245 Sea of Poppies
246 How Much of These Hills is Gold?
247 Warlight
248 The Accidental
249 Oscar and Lucinda
250 Life of Pi
251 The Gathering
252 The New Wilderness
253 This Mournable Body
254 The Restraint of Beasts
255 Elizabeth Costello
256 The Sellout
257 Burnt Sugar
258 The Industry of Souls
259 Headlong
260 My Sister, the Serial Killer
261 Brick Lane
262 England, England
263 Hotel du Lac
264 Darkmans
265 Real Life
266 Treacle Walker
267 The Underground Man
268 C
269 Western lane
270 Nice Work
271 The Good Terrorist
272 A Disaffection
273 Remembering Babylon
274 The Book and the Brotherhood
275 The Enchantress of Florence
276 Oh William!
277 Disgrace
278 If I Survive You
279 The Conservationist
280 Old God's Time
281 Holiday
282 Slow Man
283 Shalimar the Clown
284 Klara and the Sun
285 Booth
286 Gathering the Water
287 Saturday
288 The Next Big Thing
289 The Dressmaker
290 Brooklyn
291 In Custody
292 The Famished Road
293 Get a Life
294 Under the Frog
295 G.
296 Offshore
297 Sleeping on Jupiter
298 Utz
299 Oxygen
300 Netherland
301 Fingersmith
302 The Good Doctor
303 How to Paint a Dead Man
304 Parrot and Olivier in America
305 God On The Rocks
306 The Underground Railroad
307 The Year of the Runaways
308 On Canaan's Side
309 The Bookshop
310 The Lost Dog
311 Dirt Music
312 The Schooldays of Jesus
313 The Water Cure
314 Something to Answer For
315 Rites of Passage
316 Exit West
317 I'll Go to Bed at Noon
318 Family Matters
319 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
320 A Town Called Solace
321 Such a Fun Age
322 The Bay of Noon
323 Amsterdam
324 Breakfast on Pluto
325 What Was Lost
326 The Colour of Blood
327 English Passengers
328 The Perfect Man
329 The Testament of Mary
330 History of Wolves
331 The Autograph Man
332 The Testaments
333 Redhead by the Side of the Road
334 The Northern Clemency
335 The Wall
336 The White Hotel
337 Joseph
338 The Electric Michelangelo
339 Briefing For A Descent Into Hell
340 The Bone Clocks
341 The Essence of the Thing
342 The Doctor's Wife
343 Satin Island
344 The Finkler Question
345 number9dream
346 Pascali's Island
347 A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
348 The Many
349 Bruno's Dream
350 The Bee Sting
351 The Yips
352 On Chesil Beach
353 Vernon God Little
354 Eileen
355 The Lighthouse
356 The Emperor's Children
357 Europa
358 The Old Devils
359 Who They Was
360 The White Tiger
361 The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
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Figures in a Landscape by Barry England (1969)
Impossible Object by Nicholas Mosley (1969)
The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch (1969)
The Public Image by Muriel Spark (1969)
From Scenes Like These by Gordon Williams (1969)
John Brown's Body by A. L. Barker (1970)
Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen (1970)
Bruno's Dream by Iris Murdoch (1970)
Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel by William Trevor (1970)
The Conjunction by Terence Wheeler (1970)
The Birds on the Trees by Nina Bawden (1970)
The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard (1970)
Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault (1970)
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark (1970)
The Vivisector by Patrick White (1970)
The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy (1971)
Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing (1971)
St Urbain's Horseman by Mordecai Richler (1971)
Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson (1971)
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (1971)
The Bird of Night by Susan Hill (1972)
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally (1972)
Pasmore by David Storey (1972)
The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge (1973)
The Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor (1973)
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch (1973)
Ending Up by Kingsley Amis (1974)
The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge (1974)
In Their Wisdom by C. P. Snow (1974)
Gossip from the Forest by Thomas Keneally (1975)
An Instant in the Wind by André Brink (1976)
Rising by R. C. Hutchinson (1976)
The Doctor's Wife by Brian Moore (1976)
King Fisher Lives by Julian Rathbone (1976)
The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor (1976)
Peter Smart's Confessions by Paul Bailey (1977)
Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood (1977)
Shadows on our Skin by Jennifer Johnston (1977)
The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively (1977)
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym (1977)
Jake's Thing by Kingsley Amis (1978)
Rumours of Rain by André Brink (1978)
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald (1978)
God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam (1978)
A Five-Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens (1978)
Confederates by Thomas Keneally (1979)
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul (1979)
Joseph by Julian Rathbone (1979)
Praxis by Fay Weldon (1979)
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess (1980)
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai (1980)
The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro (1980)
No Country for Young Men by Julia O'Faolain (1980)
Pascali's Island by Barry Unsworth (1980)
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr (1980)
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane (1981)
The Sirian Experiments by Doris Lessing (1981)
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan (1981)
Rhine Journey by Ann Schlee (1981)
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark (1981)
The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas (1981)
Silence Among the Weapons by John Arden (1982)
An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd (1982)
Constance or Solitary Practices by Lawrence Durrell (1982)
The 27th Kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis (1982)
Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo (1982)
Rates of Exchange by Malcolm Bradbury (1983)
Flying to Nowhere by John Fuller (1983)
The Illusionist by Anita Mason (1983)
Shame by Salman Rushdie (1983)
Waterland by Graham Swift (1983)
Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard (1984)
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes (1984)
In Custody by Anita Desai (1984)
According to Mark by Penelope Lively (1984)
Small World by David Lodge (1984)
Illywhacker by Peter Carey (1985)
The Battle of Pollocks Crossing by J. L. Carr (1985)
The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing (1985)
Last Letters from Hav by Jan Morris (1985)
The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch (1985)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1986)
Gabriel's Lament by Paul Bailey (1986)
What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies (1986)
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (1986)
An Insular Possession by Timothy Mo (1986)
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe (1987)
Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd (1987)
Circles of Deceit by Nina Bawden (1987)
The Colour of Blood by Brian Moore (1987)
The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch (1987)
Utz by Bruce Chatwin (1988)
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald (1988)
Nice Work by David Lodge (1988)
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (1988)
The Lost Father by Marina Warner (1988)
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (1989)
The Book of Evidence by John Banville (1989)
Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford (1989)
A Disaffection by James Kelman (1989)
Restoration by Rose Tremain (1989)
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge (1990)
The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald (1990)
Amongst Women by John McGahern (1990)
Lies of Silence by Brian Moore (1990)
Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler (1990)
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis (1991)
The Van by Roddy Doyle (1991)
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry (1991)
The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo (1991)
Reading Turgenev by William Trevor (1991)
Serenity House by Christopher Hope (1992)
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe (1992)
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan (1992)
Daughters of the House by Michèle Roberts (1992)
Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer (1993)
Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff (1993)
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf (1993)
Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips (1993)
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (1993)
Reef by Romesh Gunesekera (1994)
Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah (1994)
The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst (1994)
Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown (1994)
Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh (1994)
In Every Face I Meet by Justin Cartwright (1995)
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie (1995)
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth (1995)
The Riders by Tim Winton (1995)
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (1996)
Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge (1996)
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane (1996)
The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay (1996)
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (1996)
Quarantine by Jim Crace (1997)
The Underground Man by Mick Jackson (1997)
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty (1997)
Europa by Tim Parks (1997)
The Essence of the Thing by Madeleine St John (1997)
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge (1998)
England, England by Julian Barnes (1998)
The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth (1998)
Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe (1998)
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills (1998)
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai (1999)
Headlong by Michael Frayn (1999)
Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan (1999)
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif (1999)
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín (1999)
The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi (2000)
The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins (2000)
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (2000)
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale (2000)
The Deposition of Father McGreevy by Brian O'Doherty (2000)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001)
Oxygen by Andrew Miller (2001)
number9dream by David Mitchell (2001)
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert (2001)
Hotel World by Ali Smith (2001)
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry (2002)
Unless by Carol Shields (2002)
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor (2002)
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (2002)
Dirt Music by Tim Winton (2002)
Brick Lane by Monica Ali (2003)
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (2003)
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut (2003)
Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller (2003)
Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall (2003)
Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor (2004)
The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall (2004)
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2004)
The Master by Colm Tóibín (2004)
I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward (2004)
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes (2005)
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry (2005)
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
The Accidental by Ali Smith (2005)
On Beauty by Zadie Smith (2005)
The Secret River by Kate Grenville (2006)
Carry Me Down by M. J. Hyland (2006)
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar (2006)
Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn (2006)
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (2006)
Darkmans by Nicola Barker (2007)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (2007)
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (2007)
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (2007)
Animal's People by Indra Sinha (2007)
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (2008)
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (2008)
The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant (2008)
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher (2008)
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz (2008)
The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt (2009)
Summertime by J. M. Coetzee (2009)
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds (2009)
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer (2009)
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (2009)
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (2010)
Room by Emma Donoghue (2010)
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (2010)
The Long Song by Andrea Levy (2010)
C by Tom McCarthy (2010)
Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch (2011)
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (2011)
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (2011)
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman (2011)
Snowdrops by A. D. Miller (2011)
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Swimming Home by Deborah Levy (2012)
The Lighthouse by Alison Moore (2012)
Umbrella by Will Self (2012)
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (2012)
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil (2012)
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (2013)
Harvest by Jim Crace (2013)
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (2013)
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (2013)
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín (2013)
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris (2014)
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler (2014)
J by Howard Jacobson (2014)
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee (2014)
How to Be Both by Ali Smith (2014)
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy (2015)
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma (2015)
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota (2015)
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (2015)
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (2015)
His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnett (2016)
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy (2016)
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeliene Thien (2016)
All That Man Is by David Szalay (2016)
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (2016)
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster (2017)
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (2017)
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (2017)
Elmet by Fiona Mozley (2017)
Autumn by Ali Smith (2017)
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson (2018)
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (2018)
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner (2018)
The Overstory by Richard Powers (2018)
The Long Take by Robin Robertson (2018)
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann (2019)
An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma (2019)
Quichotte by Salman Rushdie (2019)
10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak (2019)
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook (2020)
This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga (2020)
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi (2020)
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (2020)
Real Life by Brandon Taylor (2020)
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam (2021)
No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood (2021)
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed (2021)
Bewilderment by Richard Powers (2021)
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (2021)
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo (2022)
The Trees by Percival Everett (2022)
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner (2022)
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (2022)
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout (2022)
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein (2023)
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery (2023)
This Other Eden by Paul Harding (2023)
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch (2023)
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo (2023)
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (2023)
Full list of longlisted books (NB before 2001 longlists were not public):
According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge (2001)
If the Invader Comes by Derek Beaven (2001)
A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg (2001)
Shamrock Tea by Ciaran Carson (2001)
The Element of Water by Stevie Davies (2001)
The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer (2001)
Dogside Story by Patricia Grace (2001)
By The Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah (2001)
How to be Good by Nick Hornby (2001)
Wolfy and the Strudelbakers by Zvl Jagendorf (2001)
Translated Accounts by James Kelman (2001)
The Blue Tango by Eoin MacNamee (2001)
Fairness by Ferdinand Mount (2001)
Half a Life by V. S. Naipaul (2001)
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (2001)
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri (2001)
The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart (2001)
The Leto Bundle by Marina Warner (2001)
The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds & Dr Glas by Dannie Abse (2002)
Shroud by John Banville (2002)
Critical Injuries by Joan Barfoot (2002)
Any Human Heart by William Boyd (2002)
The Next Big Thing by Anita Brookner (2002)
Peacetime by Robert Edric (2002)
Spies by Michael Frayn (2002)
Still Here by Linda Grant (2002)
The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher (2002)
Who's Sorry Now by Howard Jacobson (2002)
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor (2002)
Dorian by Will Self (2002)
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith (2002)
To the Last City by Colin Thubron (2002)
Yellow Dog by Martin Amis (2003)
Turn Again Home by Carol Birch (2003)
Crossing the Lines by Melvyn Bragg (2003)
Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee (2003)
The Taxi Driver's Daughter by Julia Darling (2003)
Schopenhauer's Telescope by Gerard Donovan (2003)
The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy (2003)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon (2003)
The Nick of Time by Francis King (2003)
Heligoland by Shena Mackay (2003)
Jazz etc. by John Murray (2003)
Something Might Happen by Julie Myerson (2003)
Judge Savage by Tim Parks (2003)
A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips (2003)
Waxwings by Jonathan Raban (2003)
The Light of Day by Graham Swift (2003)
Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido (2003)
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2004)
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam (2004)
Clear: A Transparent Novel by Nicola Barker (2004)
The Island Walkers by John Bemrose (2004)
Havoc, in Its Third Year by Ronan Bennett (2004)
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (2004)
Always the Sun by Neil Cross (2004)
Becoming Strangers by Louise Dean (2004)
A Blade of Grass by Lewis Desoto (2004)
Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton Paterson (2004)
The Honeymoon by Justin Haythe (2004)
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard (2004)
Sixty Lights by Gail Jones (2004)
The Unnumbered by Sam North (2004)
Snowleg by Nicholas Shakespeare (2004)
Cherry by Matt Thorne (2004)
The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw (2005)
In the Fold by Rachel Cusk (2005)
All for Love by Dan Jacobson (2005)
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (2005)
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel (2005)
The People's Act of Love by James Meek (2005)
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie (2005)
This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson (2005)
This is the Country by William Wall (2005)
Saturday by Ian McEwan (2005)
Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee (2005)
Gathering the Water by Robert Edric (2006)
Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson (2006)
Seven Lies by James Lasdun (2006)
The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson (2006)
So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor (2006)
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud (2006)
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (2006)
The Perfect Man by Naeem Murr (2006)
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan (2006)
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson (2006)
Get a Life by Nadine Gordimer (2006)
The Ruby in her Navel by Barry Unsworth (2006)
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey (2006)
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies (2007)
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (2007)
What was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn (2007)
Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (2007)
Consolation by Michael Redhill (2007)
Winnie and Wolf by A. N. Wilson (2007)
Self Help by Edward Docx (2007)
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie (2008)
Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold (2008)
From A to X by John Berger (2008)
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser (2008)
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill (2008)
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammad Hanif (2008)
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (2008)
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín (2009)
Love and Summer by William Trevor (2009)
How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall (2009)
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey (2009)
Heliopolis by James Scudamore (2009)
Not Untrue and Not Unkind by Ed O'Loughlin (2009)
Me Cheeta: The Autobiography by James Lever (2009)
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (2010)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (2010)
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas (2010)
Trespass by Rose Tremain (2010)
February by Lisa Moore (2010)
The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner (2010)
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore (2010)
On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry (2011)
Far To Go by Alison Pick (2011)
Derby Day by D. J. Taylor (2011)
The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers (2011)
A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvette Edwards (2011)
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst (2011)
The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness (2011)
The Unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (2012)
Skios by Michael Frayn (2012)
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman (2012)
The Yips by Nicola Barker (2012)
Philida by Andre Brink (2012)
Communion Town by Sam Thompson (2012)
Transatlantic by Colum McCann (2013)
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan (2013)
Unexploded by Alison MacLeod (2013)
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (2013)
The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris (2013)
The Kills by Richard House (2013)
Almost English by Charlotte Mendelson (2013)
The full list is now too big again - see below for 2014-22!
This exercise was extremely difficult. I've had to confront my prejudices very plainly.
1. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (2002) -- This isn't the best book on the list, but I love this book so much.
2. Rumours of Rain by André Brink (1978)
3. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1986)
4. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch (1973)
5. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2004)
6. Darkmans by Nicola Barker (2007)
7. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (2011)
8. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (2006)
9. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (1989)
10. God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam (1978)
11. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (2003)
12. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (2004)
13. Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey (2006)
14. Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood (1977)
15. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (2009)
16. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (2010)
17. The teleportation accident by Ned Beauman (2012)
18. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005) - Not sure why I don't love this one as much as everyone else.
19. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (2015)
20. The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth (2014)
21. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (1996)
22. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes (1984) -- I read this at the wrong time so I realize I'm ranking it much lower than it deserves.
23. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler (2014)
24. number9dream by David Mitchell (2001)
25. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (2005)
26. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (2013)
27. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald (1978)
28. The Accidental by Ali Smith (2005) - Another book that inexplicably bounced off of me.
29. Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001)
30. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (2001)
31. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (2006)
32. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon (2003)
33. His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnett (2016)
34. My name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (2016)
35. Do not say we have Nothing by Madeliene Thien (2016)
36. A Five-Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens (1978)
37. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (2014)
38. Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing (1971)
39. Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (2016)
40. Hot Milk by Deborah Levy (2016)
3/24/17 Edited to add Briefing for a Descent
1. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (2002) -- This isn't the best book on the list, but I love this book so much.
2. Rumours of Rain by André Brink (1978)
3. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1986)
4. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch (1973)
5. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2004)
6. Darkmans by Nicola Barker (2007)
7. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (2011)
8. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (2006)
9. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (1989)
10. God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam (1978)
11. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (2003)
12. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (2004)
13. Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey (2006)
14. Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood (1977)
15. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (2009)
16. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (2010)
17. The teleportation accident by Ned Beauman (2012)
18. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005) - Not sure why I don't love this one as much as everyone else.
19. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (2015)
20. The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth (2014)
21. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (1996)
22. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes (1984) -- I read this at the wrong time so I realize I'm ranking it much lower than it deserves.
23. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler (2014)
24. number9dream by David Mitchell (2001)
25. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (2005)
26. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (2013)
27. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald (1978)
28. The Accidental by Ali Smith (2005) - Another book that inexplicably bounced off of me.
29. Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001)
30. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (2001)
31. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (2006)
32. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon (2003)
33. His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnett (2016)
34. My name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (2016)
35. Do not say we have Nothing by Madeliene Thien (2016)
36. A Five-Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens (1978)
37. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (2014)
38. Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing (1971)
39. Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (2016)
40. Hot Milk by Deborah Levy (2016)
3/24/17 Edited to add Briefing for a Descent
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I've gone ahead and removed The Sellout.
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I can probably extend the above to a top 25 without any undue hassle though.
My bottom 3 are The Kills (I only read the first two of its four books - any rules on including abandoned books?), The Handmaid's Tale and The Lowland.
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It was a bit disappointing to see how few authors are on the shortlists overall and how few authors I personally have read. Just think what I could have done with my life instead of reading all of the mediocre books in David Mitchell's back catalog.
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1. A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr (1980)
2. The Master by Colm Tóibín (2004)
3. Summertime by J. M. Coetzee (2009)
4. Lila by Marilynne Robinson (2015)
5. Amongst Women by John McGahern (1990)
6. The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro (1980)
7. In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (2010)
8, The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald (1978)
9. Headlong by Michael Frayn (1999)
10. Harvest by Jim Crace (2013)
11. Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee (2005)
12. Netherland by Joseph O'Neill (2008)
13. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (2009)
14. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2004)
15. Lies of Silence by Brian Moore (1990)
16. Arthur & George by Julian Barnes (2005)
17. C by Tom McCarthy (2010)
18. Swimming Home by Deborah Levy (2012)
19. Hot Milk by Deborah Levy (2016)
20. Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín (2009)
21. The Many by Wyl Menmuir (2016)
22. The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant (2008)
23. Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001)
24. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (2004)
25. The Lighthouse by Alison Moore (2012)
26. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (1986)
27. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1986)
28. My name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (2016)
29. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (2007)
30. When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (2000)
31. The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut (2003)
32. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (2006)
33. Spies by Michael Frayn (2002)
34. From A to X by John Berger (2008)
35. number9dream by David Mitchell (2001)
36. Far To Go by Alison Pick (2011)
37. Saturday by Ian McEwan (2005)
38. February by Lisa Moore (2010)
39. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (2010)
40. Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (2008)
41. The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (2008)
42. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
43. Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (2007)
44. The Glass Room by Simon Mawer (2009)
45. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (1996)
46. Skios by Michael Frayn (2012)
47. A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (2015)
48. Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (2011)
49. Time's Arrow by Martin Amis (1991)
50. The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (2012)
51. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (2011)
52. The Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan (2015)
53. The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie (2008)
54. Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey (2006)
55. A Case of Exploding Mangos by Mohammad Hanif (2008)
56. Do not say we have Nothing by Madeliene Thien (2016)
57. The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark (1970)
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon (2003)
59. Satin Island by Tom McCarthy (2015)
60. Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch (2011)
61. Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (2010)
62. A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz (2008)
63. The Unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (2012)
64. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (2007)
65. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (2008)
66. The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher (2008)
67. The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser (2008)
68. Snowdrops by A. D. Miller (2011)
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Gosh, I've just checked and I've read 113 of the shortlist. I've not even looked at the long list yet. Edited and 47 of the long list. This may take some time!
I'm afraid my own list is rather small, as I've only gotten into reading Man Booker in the past year but I hope to expand this list with time!1. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (1996)
2. Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeline Thien (2016)
3. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1986)
4. His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae (2016)
5. The Moor's Account by Laila Lalimi (2015)
6. The Chimes by Anna Smaill (2015)
7. Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves (2016)
8. Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (2016)
9. My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
10. Hot Milk by Deborah Levy (2016)
11. The North Water by Ian McGuire (2016)
12. All that Man Is by David Szalay (2016)
13. The Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan (2015)
14. The Many by Wyl Menmuir (2016)
15. Hystopia by David Means (2016)
Aug 3, 2018 update/revision. In rank order, although that ranking is likely to change depending on the weather. The first group are the ones that I ranked 5. The second group are ones I ranked 4. The third group are ones that I ranked 3. The last group of one, I rated a 2. 1. Lila (2015)
2. Autumn (2017)
3. Purple Hibiscus (2004)
4. A Month in the Country (1980)
5. Orfeo (2015)
6. The Amber Spyglass (2001)
7. Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016)
8. Reservoir 13 (2017)
9. Elmet (2017)
10. My Name is Lucy Barton (2016)
11. How to be Both (2014)
12. Oryx and Crake (2003)
13. The Underground Railroad (2017)
14. A Little Life (2015)
15. Shalimar the Clown (2005)
16. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel (2004)
17. Transatlantic (2013)
18. The Sisters Brothers (2011)
19. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010)
20. A Spool of Blue Thread (2015)
21. The Blazing World (2014)
22. The Testament of Mary (2013)
23. Slow Man (2005)
24. Solar Bones (2017)
25. The Great Fire (2004)
26. The Glass House (2011)
27. The Lowland (2013)
28. Home Fire (2017)
29. The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
30. The Bone Clocks (2014)
31. The Autograph Man (2002)
32. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2014)
33. The Moors Account (2015)
34. The Fishermen (2015)
35. Did You Ever Have a Family (2015)
36. The Children's Book (2008)
37. Cloud Atlas (2004)
38. We Need New Names (2013)
39. Child 44 (2008)
40. Never Let Me Go (2005)
41. Brooklyn (2009)
42. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (2003)
43. On Beauty (2005)
44. Brick Lane (2003)
45. Netherland (2008)
46. Saturday (2005)
47. A Tale for the Time Being (2013)
48. The Teleportation Accident (2012)
49. History of Wolves (2017)
50. The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)
51. Atonement (2001)
52. Eileen (2016)
Apparently I have read 173 of the eligible books. There's honestly no way I could rank them all - some of them I can barely remember. This Thing of Darkness would be at No 1 as it is my favourite book ever.
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Antonomasia and Hugh, Ranking is generally too frustrating for me. When trying to rank more than a handful of novels, I usually become overwhelmed with the arbitrariness of my own decisions. Will I make life too difficult for Hugh's splendid spreadsheet if I shortlisted titles that I've read (and remember reasonably well) into about four buckets?
I’ve grouped the shortlisted titles that I’ve read into six descending categories in order of my preferences: winners (that is, I think that these are equally deserving as novels that actually won the Man Booker Prize); favorites; also especially memorable; good but not as good as; less for me or less memorable; and did not finish. Within each category, I’ve tried to array the novels chronologically. As I compiled this list, I wondered about the role of recency bias: in other words, novels that I’ve read or reread more recently I may be more likely to rank high or low than novels that I read many years ago. I could easily change my groupings when I reread any of the novels below, when I read additional shortlisted novels, or when I look back at these rankings and just can’t understand why I ranked a particular novel where I did.Winners:
—Rising, RC Hutchinson (1976)
—Earthly powers, Anthony Burgess (1980)
—A month in the country, JL Carr (1980)
—An insular possession, Timothy Mo (1986)
—The moor’s last sigh, Salman Rushdie (1995)
—Cloud atlas, David Mitchell (2004)
—The master, Colm Toibin (2004)
—Darkmans, Nicola Barker (2007)
—The children’s book, AS Byatt (2009)
—Umbrella, Wilf Self (2012)
—Harvest, Jim Crace (2013)
—The testament of Mary, Colm Toibin (2013)
Favorites:
—Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Elizabeth Taylor (1971)
—The bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald (1978)
—A five year sentence, Bernice Rubens (1978)
—The beggar maid: stories of Flo and Rose, Alice Munro (1980)
—Clear light of day, Anita Desai (1980)
—Good behaviour, Molly Keane (1981)
—The good terrorist, Doris Lessing (1985)
—An awfully big adventure, Beryl Bainbridge (1990)
—The folding star, Alan Hollinghurst (1994)
—Paradise, Abdulrazak Gurnah (1994)
—Reef, Romesh Gunesekera (1994)
—Morality play, Barry Unsworth (1995)
—Quarantine, Jim Crace (1997)
—When we were orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro (2000)
—Never let me go, Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
—On beauty, Zadie Smith (2005)
—Mother’s milk, Edward St. Aubyn (2006)
—Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (2007)
—The reluctant fundamentalist, Moshin Hamid (2007)
—The glass room, Simon Mawer (2009)
—The garden of evening mists, Tan Twan Eng (2012)
—The lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri (2013)
—How to be both, Ali Smith (2014)
Also especially memorable:
—The road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively (1977)
—Empire of the sun, JG Ballard (1984)
—Last letters from Hav, Jan Morris (1985)
—An artist of the floating world, Kazuo Ishiguro (1986)
—The handmaid’s tale, Margaret Atwood (1986)
—Chatterton, Peter Ackroyd (1987)
—Scar tissue, Michael Ignatieff (1993)
—A fine balance, Rohinton Mistry (1996)
—Headlong, Michael Frayn (1999)
—The good doctor, Damon Galgut (2003)
—Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood (2003)
—Bitter fruit, Achmat Dangor (2004)
—The electric Michelangelo, Sarah Hall (2004)
—The accidental, Ali Smith (2005)
—Arthur and George, Julian Barnes (2005)
—A fraction of the whole, Steve Toltz (2008)
—Half blood blues, Esi Edugyan (2011)
—Narcopolis, Jeet Thayll (2012)
—Satin Island, Tom McCarthy (2015)
—The year of the runaways, Sunjeev Sahota (2015)
—His bloody project, Graeme Macrae Burnet (2016)
—Hot milk, Deborah Levy (2016)
—Do not say we have nothing, Madeleine Thien (2016)
Good but not as good as:
—St. Urbain’s horsemen, Mordechai Richler (1971)
—The bottle factory outing, Beryl Bainbridge (1974)
—Gossip from the forest, Thomas Keneally (1974)
—The children of Dynmouth, William Trevor (1976)
—King Fisher lives, Julian Rathbone (1976)
—Great Granny Webster, Caroline Blackwood (1977)
—Peter Smart’s confessions, Paul Bailey (1977)
—Quartet in autumn, Barbara Pym (1977)
—God on the rocks, Jane Gardam (1978)
—Rumours of rain, Andre Brink (1978)
—A bend in the river, VS Naipaul (1979)
—No country for young men, Julia O’Faolain (1980)
—Pascali’s island, Barry Unsworth (1980)
—Shame, Salman Rushdie (1983)
—According to Mark, Penelope Lively (1984)
—Flaubert’s parrot, Julian Barnes (1984)
—Small world, David Lodge (1984)
—The good apprentice, Iris Murdoch (1985)
—Illywhacker, Peter Carey (1985)
—Gabriel’s lament, Paul Bailey (1986)
—What’s bred in the bone, Robertson Davies (1986)
—Anthills of the savannah, Chinua Achebe (1987)
—The book and the brotherhood, Iris Murdoch (1987)
—Chatterton, Peter
—The book of evidence, John Banville (1989)
—A disaffection, James Kelman (1989)
—Crossing the river, Caryl Phillips (1993)
—Remembering Babylon, David Malouf (1993)
—Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood (1996)
—The underground man, Mick Jackson (1997)
—Our fathers, Andrew O’Hagan (1999)
—Brick Lane, Monica Ali (2003)
—A long, long way, Sebastian Barry (2005)
—The night watch, Sarah Waters (2006)
—Animal’s people, Indra Sinha (2007)
—On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan (2007)
—The clothes on their backs, Linda Grant (2008)
—Sea of poppies, Amitav Gosh (2008)
—The secret scripture, Sebastian Barry (2008)
—The quickening maze, Adam Foulds (2009)
—Summertime, JM Coetzee (2009)
—C, Tom McCarthy (2010)
—In a strange room, Damon Galgut (2010)
—The long song, Andrea Levy (2010)
—Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey (2010)
—Swimming home, Deborah Levy (2012)
—The lighthouse, Alison Moore (2012)
—We need new names, NoViolet Bulawayo (2013)
—The lives of others, Neel Mukherjee (2014)
—The fishermen, Chigozie Obioma (2015)
—A spool of blue thread, Anne Tyler (2015)
—Eileen, Otessa Moshfegh (2016)
—All that man is, David Szalay (2016)
Less for me or less memorable:
—The birds on the trees, Nina Bawden (1970)
—Pasmore, David Storey (1972)
—Ending up, Kingsley Amis (1974)
—In their wisdom, CP Snow (1974)
—The doctor’s wife, Brian Moore (1976)
—An instant in the wind, Andre Brink (1976)
—Shadows on our skin, Jennifer Johnston (1977)
—Jake’s thing, Kingsley Amis (1978)
—In custody, Anita Desai (1984)
—The battle of Pollock’s Crossing, JL Carr (1985)
—Circles of deceit, Nina Bawden (1987)
—The color of blood, Brian Moore (1987)
—Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood (1989)
—Lies of silence, Brian Moore (1990)
—Solomon Gursky was here, Mordecai Richler (1990)
—Time’s arrow, or the nature of the offence, Martin Amis (1991)
—The stone diaries, Carol Shield (1993)
—Under the frog, Tibor Fischer (1993)
—Beside the ocean of time, George Mackay Brown (1994)
—Knowledge of angels, Jill Paton Walsh (1994)
—In every face I meet, Justin Cartwright (1995)
—The riders, Tim Winton (1995)
—Every man for himself, Beryl Bainbridge (1996)
—The orchard on fire, Shena Mackay (1996)
—Reading in the dark, Seamus Deane (1996)
—The essence of the thing, Madeleine St. John (1997)
—Europa, Tim Parks (1997)
—Grace notes, Bernard MacLaverty (1997)
—The hiding place, Trezza Azzopardi (2000)
—I’ll go to bed at noon, Gerard Woodward (2004)
—Carry me down, MJ Hyland (2006)
—In the country of men, Hisham Matar (2006)
—The secret river, Kate Grenville (2006)
—The northern clemency, Philip Hensher (2008)
—The little stranger, Sarah Water (2009)
—Room, Emma Donaghue (2010)
—Jamrach’s menagerie, Carol Birch (2011)
—Pigeon English, Stephen Kelman (2011)
—The sisters brothers, Patrick deWitt (2011)
—Snowdrops, AD Miller (2011)
—To rise again at a decent hour, Joshua Ferris (2014)
—We are all completely beside ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (2014)
—J, Howard Jacobson (2014)
—A little life, Hanya Yanagihara (2015)
Did not finish:
—Family matters, Rohinton Mistry (2011)
Hugh wrote: "Thanks Dan . Will add those to the list in the next day or two..."Actually, thanks to you, Hugh, for all of your work on this.
Mod
209, An Island, 89, 321, 3,
210, Master Georgie, 84, 322, 1,
211, The Gate of Angels, 72, 323, 2,
212, Confederates, 85, 324, 1,
213, The Electric Michelangelo, 119, 324, 3,
214, The Public Image, 80, 324, 3,
215, Swing Time, 73, 325, 8,
216, The Bone Clocks, 79, 327, 6,
217, February, 52, 328, 3,
218, The People's Act of Love, 104, 330, 2,
219, The Water Cure, 109, 330, 5,
220, The Stone Carvers, 36, 331, 1,
221, Last Letters from Hav, 47, 333, 1,
222, Scar Tissue, 47, 333, 1,
223, Bitter Fruit, 47, 333, 1,
224, The Ruby in her Navel, 92, 335, 1,
225, Narcopolis, 58, 335, 3,
226, Fasting, Feasting, 89, 335, 2,
227, Family Matters, 123, 337, 4,
228, Theft: A Love Story, 65, 337, 3,
229, The Teleportation Accident, 38, 338, 4,
230, The Other Side of the Bridge, 53, 339, 2,
231, Carry Me Down, 120, 341, 5,
232, The Satanic Verses, 93, 342, 4,
233, Gossip from the Forest, 88, 343, 2,
234, Love and Summer, 71, 344, 3,
235, After Sappho, 69, 345, 3,
236, Exit West, 72, 347, 10,
237, Serious Sweet, 48, 349, 3,
238, How Much of These Hills is Gold?, 107, 350, 3,
239, The Bottle Factory Outing, 99, 353, 3,
240, Loitering with Intent, 104, 354, 1,
241, The Good Terrorist, 100, 354, 3,
242, Us, 60, 354, 4,
243, From A to X, 100, 356, 3,
244, Such a Long Journey, 109, 357, 2,
245, Jigsaw, 106, 357, 1,
246, Peacetime, 43, 358, 1,
247, An Orchestra of Minorities, 85, 359, 2,
248, The Great Fire, 83, 359, 3,
249, Utz, 129, 360, 2,
250, The New Wilderness, 109, 360, 3,
251, Illywhacker, 99, 360, 2,
252, The Northern Clemency, 122, 361, 5,
253, Restoration, 109, 361, 1,
254, The Enchantress of Florence, 98, 363, 3,
255, This Other Eden, 102, 363, 2,
256, Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel, 110, 363, 1,
257, Remembering Babylon, 121, 364, 3,
258, Eva Trout, 114, 369, 1,
259, Turn Again Home, 46, 370, 1,
260, The Schooldays of Jesus, 138, 371, 2,
261, Beyond Black, 116, 371, 2,
262, The Sirian Experiments, 116, 373, 1,
263, The Long Song, 78, 373, 4,
264, Booth, 110, 379, 4,
265, Brick Lane, 102, 379, 5,
266, Animal's People, 72, 380, 3,
267, Kalooki Nights, 121, 380, 1,
268, Grace Notes, 89, 382, 2,
269, The Wall, 113, 383, 4,
270, If I Survive You, 135, 385, 2,
271, An Instant in the Wind, 92, 386, 2,
272, The Autograph Man, 119, 386, 4,
273, Nice Work, 122, 387, 2,
274, Unexploded, 80, 388, 2,
275, Our Fathers, 75, 388, 2,
276, Sour Sweet, 127, 390, 1,
277, No Country for Young Men, 120, 393, 2,
278, The Doctor's Wife, 145, 396, 3,
279, Such a Fun Age, 126, 397, 4,
280, In the Country of Men, 128, 397, 4,
281, The Van, 27, 400, 1,
282, No One is Talking About This, 101, 401, 4,
283, The Mars Room, 75, 401, 4,
284, How to Paint a Dead Man, 131, 402, 3,
285, Havoc, in its Third Year, 54, 402, 1,
286, The Children of Dynmouth, 125, 402, 2,
287, The Redundancy of Courage, 136, 404, 1,
288, Knowledge of Angels, 104, 405, 2,
289, Impossible Object, 137, 406, 1,
290, Old God's Time, 142, 407, 2,
291, Frankissstein, 64, 409, 3,
292, Schopenhauer's Telescope, 56, 410, 1,
293, The Stone Diaries, 67, 411, 3,
294, Every Man for Himself, 107, 411, 3,
295, To the Last City, 57, 414, 1,
296, A Town Called Solace, 135, 414, 3,
297, Jamrach's Menagerie, 82, 415, 4,
298, Under the Frog, 134, 418, 3,
299, Anthills of the Savannah, 135, 418, 2,
300, Oh William!, 117, 422, 4,
301, Heliopolis, 65, 422, 1,
302, The Wilderness, 65, 422, 1,
303, The Battle of Pollocks Crossing, 115, 423, 2,
304, John Brown's Body, 148, 423, 1,
305, The Illuminations, 43, 425, 3,
306, The Restraint of Beasts, 139, 427, 2,
307, Parrot and Olivier in America, 117, 428, 4,
308, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, 124, 428, 4,
309, The Island Walkers, 61, 430, 1,
310, Child 44, 71, 431, 4,
311, Black Dogs, 59, 432, 2,
312, The Taxi Driver's Daughter, 62, 434, 1,
313, A Disaffection, 129, 435, 3,
314, Gathering the Water, 147, 436, 2,
315, Snowdrops, 95, 437, 5,
316, Burnt Sugar, 131, 438, 3,
317, Skios, 77, 438, 4,
318, The Essence of the Thing, 137, 439, 4,
319, The Lost Dog, 127, 439, 4,
320, Real Life, 136, 439, 3,
321, All the Little Bird-Hearts, 160, 442, 1,
322, Five Star Billionaire, 81, 442, 3,
323, English Passengers, 159, 445, 2,
324, The Romantic, 65, 446, 1,
325, The Underground Man, 155, 449, 2,
326, St Urbain's Horseman, 85, 449, 1,
327, King Fisher Lives, 85, 449, 1,
328, Peter Smart's Confessions, 85, 449, 1,
329, Gabriel's Lament, 85, 449, 1,
330, What's Bred in the Bone, 85, 449, 1,
331, Crossing the River, 85, 449, 1,
332, The Driver's Seat, 99, 451, 2,
333, Treacle Walker, 127, 453, 4,
334, The Book and the Brotherhood, 158, 454, 2,
335, My Sister, the Serial Killer, 110, 455, 4,
336, Philida, 170, 458, 1,
337, The Beginning of Spring, 171, 460, 1,
338, J, 99, 463, 2,
339, Hystopia, 20, 463, 2,
340, Light Perpetual, 127, 464, 3,
341, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, 174, 464, 1,
342, Redhead by The Side of the Road, 152, 465, 3,
343, The Orchard on Fire, 98, 470, 2,
344, England, England, 142, 471, 2,
345, Briefing for a Descent into Hell, 129, 471, 3,
346, What was Lost, 169, 473, 2,
347, The Emperor's Children, 124, 474, 3,
348, Solomon Gursky Was Here, 150, 477, 2,
349, How to Build a Boat, 142, 478, 2,
350, Shroud, 183, 479, 1,
351, The Deposition of Father McGreevy, 184, 480, 1,
352, Pigeon English, 106, 480, 3,
353, A Spell of Good Things, 149, 484, 2,
354, The Butcher Boy, 74, 484, 2,
355, Nightcrawling, 135, 485, 3,
356, Reading Turgenev, 188, 486, 1,
357, Great Circle, 142, 487, 2,
358, Far To Go, 80, 488, 2,
359, The Riders, 103, 488, 2,
360, Heligoland, 76, 489, 1,
361, The Dark Room, 190, 490, 1,
362, Beside the Ocean of Time, 160, 494, 2,
363, Snap, 92, 494, 4,
364, By The Sea, 78, 497, 1,
365, Pascali's Island, 188, 502, 2,
366, The Slap, 61, 504, 3,
367, In the Fold, 150, 505, 2,
368, Western Lane, 172, 513, 2,
369, Dirt Music, 174, 517, 2,
370, Elizabeth Costello, 214, 528, 1,
371, Critical Injuries, 86, 529, 1,
372, This Mournable Body, 146, 530, 2,
373, The Industry of Souls, 216, 531, 1,
374, Waxwings, 88, 537, 1,
375, In Custody, 189, 540, 2,
376, The Mulberry Empire, 94, 561, 1,
377, The Colour of Blood, 203, 562, 2,
378, Judge Savage, 95, 565, 1,
379, The Next Big Thing, 242, 572, 1,
380, The Dressmaker, 243, 573, 1,
381, Get a Life, 246, 578, 1,
382, Sleeping on Jupiter, 248, 581, 1,
383, Europa, 217, 584, 2,
384, Oxygen, 250, 584, 1,
385, The Harmony Silk Factory, 102, 593, 1,
386, How to be Good, 113, 594, 1,
387, Me Cheeta, 113, 594, 1,
388, The Birds on the Trees, 134, 598, 1,
389, Pasmore, 134, 598, 1,
390, Ending Up, 134, 598, 1,
391, In Their Wisdom, 134, 598, 1,
392, Shadows on our Skin, 134, 598, 1,
393, Jake's Thing, 134, 598, 1,
394, Circles of Deceit, 134, 598, 1,
395, In Every Face I Meet, 134, 598, 1,
396, Reading in the Dark, 134, 598, 1,
397, The Hiding Place, 134, 598, 1,
398, The Bee Sting, 217, 601, 2,
399, The Kills, 65, 607, 2,
400, The Testament of Jessie Lamb, 125, 614, 2,
401, The Bay of Noon, 270, 616, 1,
402, The Keepers of Truth, 108, 616, 1,
403, Breakfast on Pluto, 271, 618, 1,
404, The Perfect Man, 275, 624, 1,
405, Consolation, 110, 624, 1,
406, Not Untrue and Not Unkind, 124, 633, 1,
407, The White Hotel, 282, 635, 1,
408, The Pickup, 113, 636, 1,
409, Joseph, 283, 637, 1,
410, A Cupboard Full of Coats, 70, 649, 1,
411, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, 292, 651, 1,
412, Bruno's Dream, 294, 654, 1,
413, All for Love, 118, 656, 1,
414, Who They Was, 302, 667, 1,
415, Sabrina, 97, 668, 1,
Here are my rankings. Thank you so much for doing this Hugh:Never Let Me Go
Atonement
Milkman
Bring up the Bodies
Solar Bones
A Little Life
Autumn
The Remains of the Day
How to Be Both
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Room
Oryx and Crake
This Thing of Darkness
The Underground Railroad
Days Without End
Wolf Hall
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
My name is Lucy Barton
The Sea The Sea
The Luminaries
Disgrace
Life of Pi
Exit West
A Tale for the Time Being
On Beauty
The Blazing World
Brooklyn
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
The Bone Clocks
Orfeo
Cloud Atlas
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Reservoir 13
Normal People
Lincoln in the Bardo
The Blind Assassin
The English Patient
The Sense of an Ending
A Month in the Country
The North Water
Do not say we have Nothing
Did you ever have a family?
Possession
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Ranks:The Best:
I'll Go to Bed at Noon
My Name Is Lucy Barton
The Blackwater Lightship
Swimming Home
Summertime
On Beauty
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Harvest
The Doctor's Wife
Hot Milk
The Comfort of Strangers
Amongst Women
In a Strange Room
The Lighthouse
The Green Road
Skippy Dies
Lila
The Spinning Heart
Mother's Milk
The Schooldays of Jesus
A Spool of Blue Thread
Earthly Powers
Any Human Heart
Liked a lot:
The Wilderness
The Testament of Mary
Mister Pip
The Blazing World
Carry Me Down
An Artist of the Floating World
Never Let Me Go
J
Time's Arrow
The Handmaid's Tale
Five Star Billionaire
A Long Long Way
We Need New Names
A Month in the Country
Did You Ever Have a Family
Slow Man
The Lost Dog
Brooklyn
The Master
Orfeo
Half-Blood Blues
The Bookshop
Love and Summer
Spies
The Good Doctor
The Welsh Girl
Animal's People
How to Paint a Dead Man
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Case of Exploding Mangoes
The Sisters Brothers
Notes on a Scandal
The Northern Clemency
Netherland
The Stranger's Child
Serious Sweet
The Lowland
The Other Side of the Bridge
On Canaan's Side
The Secret Scripture
From A to X
The Glass Room
The Year of the Runaways
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Butcher Boy
Atonement
Black Dogs
On Chesil Beach
Saturday
So Many Ways to Begin
The Many
The Restraint of Beasts
Black Swan Green
Cloud Atlas
Lies of Silence
February
Eileen
The Fisherman
Briefing for a Descent into Hell
What Was Lost
Our Fathers
The Illuminations
C
Satin Island
His Bloody Project
The Dog
Work Like Any Other
Heliopolis
How to be both
Autograph Man
The Public Image
The Essence of the Thing
All That Man Is
Narcopolis
A Fraction of the Whole
Trespass
God on the Rocks
The Little Stranger
History of the Rain
The Clothes on Their Backs
The Quickening Maze
The Long Song
A Five-Year Sentence
Middling:
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Headlong
Skios
The Secret River
How to be Good
The Wake
Me Cheeta
Snowdrops
Clear
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Us
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Probably shouldn't have made the list:
A Tale for the Time Being
Room
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
The North Water
Not Untrue and Not Unkind
Far to Go
The Slap
Darkmans
Pigeon English
Definitely shouldn't have made the list:
number9dream
Child 44
The Testament of Jessie Lamb
A Little Life
It has been so long since I read many of these that they have faded in memory. The top of the list (ones I loved that I remember vividly) were easy to rank, as were the hated bottom ones. The vast majority in the middle I've arranged in a most unscientific way which boils down to "I think I liked this one more/less than I liked that one".Loved them - should have won:
001. A Fine Balance (1996)
002. Never Let Me Go (2005)
003. Spies (2002)
004. Empire of the Sun (1984)
005. A Month in the Country (1980)
006. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (2002)
007. Snowleg (2004)
008. The Moor's Last Sigh (1995)
009. Black Swan Green (2006)
Really liked these a lot:
010. How to be Both (2014)
011. Crossing the Lines (2003)
012. A Son of War (2001)
013. The Map of Love (1999)
014. Fingersmith (2002)
015. Any Human Heart (2002)
016. Cloud Atlas (2004)
017. A Long Long Way (2005)
018. Morality Play (1995)
Liked through to ho-hum:
019. Summertime (2009)
020. My Name is Lucy Barton (2016)
021. The People's Act of Love (2005)
022. The Secret River (2006)
023. Astonishing Splashes of Colour (2003)
024. The Little Stranger (2009)
025. The Electric Michelangelo (2004)
026. Arthur and George (2005)
027. Harvest (2013)
030. A Little Life (2015)
031. Frankie and Stankie (2003)
032.Room (2010)
033. Be Near Me (2006)
034. Sea of Poppies (2008)
035. Brooklyn (2009)
036. Shalimar the Clown (2005)
037. On Beauty (2005)
038. The Stone Carvers (2001)
039. Such a Long Journey (1991)
040. A Spool of Blue Thread (2015)
041. Beyond Black (2005)
042. Saturday (2005)
043. The Other Side of the Bridge (2006)
044. Love and Summer (2009)
045. Peacetime (2002)
046. English Passengers (2000)
047. Feasting, Fasting (1999)
048. Turn Again Home (2003)
049. Remembering Babylon (1993)
050. Family Matters (2002)
051. The Good Doctor (2003)
052. The Secret Scripture (2008)
053. The Emperor's Children (2006)
054. February (2010)
055. Gathering the Water (2006)
056. Havoc, in its Third Year (2004)
057. On Canaan's Side (2011)
058. Schopenhauer's Telescope (2003)
059. To The Last City (2002)
060. So Many Ways to Begin (2006)
061. The Garden of Evening Mists (2012)
062. The Story of Lucy Gault (2002)
063. The Island Walkers (2004)
064. The Taxi Driver's Daughter (2003)
065. The Orchard on Fire (1996)
066. The Lighthouse (2012)
067. The Romantic (2003)
068. The Stranger's Child (2011)
069. The Northern Clemency (2008)
070. A Tale for the Time Being (2013)
071. The Accidental (2005)
072. The Glass Room (2009)
073. Us (2014)
074. The Riders (1995)
075. How to Paint a Dead Man (2009)
076. The Welsh Girl (2007)
077. The Lowland (2013)
078. Heligoland (2003)
079. Oryx and Crake (2003)
080. By The Sea (2001)
081. Carry Me Down (2006)
082. Shame (1983)
083. Quarantine (1997)
084. The Night Watch (2006)
085. When We Were Orphans (2000)
086. All That Man Is (2016)
087. Dirt Music (2002)
088. Critical Injuries (2002)
089. Unless (2002)
090. Waxwings (2003)
091. Netherland (2008)
092. The Great Fire (2004)
093. Jamrach's Menagerie (2011)
094. The Quickening Maze (2009)
095. Notes on a Scandal (2003)
096. The Mulberry Empire (2002)
097. Judge Savage (2003)
098. Swimming Home (2012)
099. Alias Grace (1996)
100. The Long Song (2010)
101. In the Country of Men (2006)
102. On Chesil Beach (2007)
103. Unexploded (2013)
104. The Harmony Silk Factory (2005)
105. Autograph Man (2002)
106. Paradise (1994)
107. Every Man For Himself (1996)
108. The Green Road (2015)
109. In the Fold (2005)
110. The Keepers of Truth (2000)
111. Hot Milk (2016)
112. Consolation (2007)
113. Mister Pip (2007)
114. Five Star Billionaire (2013)
Really disliked these:
115. The Pickup (2001)
116. Brick Lane (2003)
117. The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)
118. The Lost Dog (2008)
119. C (2010)
120. All For Love (2005)
121. The Testament of Mary (2013)
122. The Testament of Jessie Lamb (2011)
Hugh wrote: Another option I rather like would be to allow winners to be included in these lists too.Hugh, I like the idea of including winners and shortlisted titles in the same ranking. My preference would be to separate out the longlisted titles that fail to place on the shortlists. But you're doing the much-appreciated work on this, and I think that you should decide what's most workable.
Mod
My spreadsheet already distinguishes between longlisted and shortlisted books, so the winners can easily be handled the same way and displayed differently in the league tables, and changing a book from longlist to shortlist or from shortlist to winner only has to be done once per book. It might also take me a few days to find time to update the spreadsheet.
This is the list of winners:
Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby (1969)
Troubles by J. G. Farrell (1970 - lost Booker)
The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens (1970)
In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul (1971)
G. by John Berger (1972)
The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell (1973)
Holiday by Stanley Middleton (1974)
The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer (1974)
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1975)
Saville by David Storey (1976)
Staying On by Paul Scott (1977)
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch (1978)
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald (1979)
Rites of Passage by William Golding (1980)
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally (1982)
Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee (1983)
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (1984)
The Bone People by Keri Hulme (1985)
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis (1986)
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (1987)
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (1988)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
Possession by A. S. Byatt (1990)
The Famished Road by Ben Okri (1991)
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1992)
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (1992)
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (1993)
How late it was, how late by James Kelman (1994)
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (1995)
Last Orders by Graham Swift (1996)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997)
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (1998)
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (1999)
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (2000)
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (2001)
Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2002)
Vernon God Little by D. B. C. Pierre (2003)
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
The Sea by John Banville (2005)
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (2006)
The Gathering by Anne Enright (2007)
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (2008)
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (2009)
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (2010)
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (2011)
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (2012)
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (2013)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (2014)
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (2015)
The Sellout by Paul Beatty (2016)
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (2017)
Milkman by Anna Burns (2018)
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (2019)
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (2019)
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (2020)
The Promise by Damon Galgut (2021)
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (2022)
I really don't feel I've tackled as many longlisted/shortlisted books compared to others, but I have a clear dynamic rating in mind for the ones I have managed to read, so here goes!All-Time Favourites:
1. A Little Life (2015)
2. Cloud Atlas (2004)
3. Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016)
Enjoyed:
4. The Handmaid's Tale (1986)
5. Room (2010)
6. 4 3 2 1 (2017)
7. Time's Arrow (1991)
8. Solar Bones (2017)
9. Hot Milk (2016)
10. Never Let Me Go (2005)
11. The Underground Railroad (2017)
12. Home Fire (2017)
13. Oryx and Crake (2003)
Decent But Forgettable:
14. Atonement (2001)
15. The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)
16. Autumn (2017)
17. His Bloody Project (2016)
18. Reservoir 13 (2017)
19. All That Man Is (2016)
20. Elmet (2017)
21. A Spool of Blue Thread (2015)
22. The Year of the Runaways (2015)
23. The Many (2016)
24. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017)
Disliked:
25. History of Wolves (2017)
26. Swing Time (2017)
27. My Name Is Lucy Barton (2016)
28. Exit West (2017)
29. Brooklyn (2009)
30. Eileen (2016)
31. Days Without End (2017)
32. Us (2014)
First time participating. I haven't read many, but here goes:1 A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
2 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
3 The Garden of Evening Mists – Tan Twan Eng
4 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
5 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
6 Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
7 Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
8 Room by Emma Donoghue
9 On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
10 The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
11 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
12 The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
13 Atonement by Ian McEwan
14 When we were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Edited 17 Aug 2017: Added The Amber Spyglass (didn't realise it was longlisted)
In my all time top 10 reads1. A Fine Balance
Loved
2. Hot Milk
3. A Little Life
4. Cloud Atlas
5. The White Tiger
6. My Name is Lucy Barton
7. The God of Small Things
8. The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Glad I Read It
9. The Handmaid's Tale
10. Never Let Me Go
11. Life of Pi
12. Room
13. Exit West
14. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
15. History of Wolves
16. 4 3 2 1
17. The Garden of Evening Mists
18. The Lowland
19. Wolf Hall
20. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
21. His Bloody Project
22. Alias Grace
Ok, but could have spent my reading time better
23. The Underground Railroad
24. Skippy Dies
25. Atonement
Didn't like, but see why others did
26. The Sellout
27. Vernon God Little
28. Remains of the Day
Just Awful
29. The Emperor's Children
Can never get this time back, and someone should have paid me to read it
30. Possession
This was a totally fun, but challenging exercise. I need to double check and make sure I found all the books I read . . .looks like I have lots to try out based on the other people's lists and the collective version.
That makes total sense! Thank you for including me. Such a cool idea.
A bit daunting!But here goes, I've read 42:
1.The Blazing World
2. Possession
3. Cloud Atlas
4. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
5. 4321
6. Autumn
7. Oryx and Crake
8. number9dream
9. The Enchantress of Florence
10. The God of Small Things
11. A Spool of Blue Thread
12. Great Granny Webster
13. Reservoir 13
14. Eileen
15. A Five Year Sentence
16. A Month in the Country
17. Offshore
18. Netherland
19. Lincoln in the Bardo
20. We Need New Names
21. The Sense of anEnding
22. Midnight's Children
23. Hotel World
24. History of Wolves
25. We are all Completely Beside Ourselves
26. His Bloody Project
27. The Narrow Road to the Deep North
28. All That Man Is
29. Solar Bones
30. Saturday
31. The Wake
32. Shalimar the Clown
My bottom part of the list gets a lower ranking:
59. Swing Time
60. Hot Milk
61. Exit West
62. My Name Is Lucy Barton
63. Brick Lane
64. The Gathering
65. The Underground Railroad
66.The Slap
67. Disgrace
68. Days Without End
Mod
Pos, Book, Average, Adjusted, Count, First Places
1,A Fine Balance,9,25,7,4
2,Earthly Powers,6,70,4,1
3,Ducks, Newburyport,7,84,4,
4,The Remains of the Day,10,85,27,4
5,Troubles,12,96,8,1
6,Summertime,43,105,5,
7,Harvest,32,107,9,1
8,Arthur & George,35,110,6,
9,A Month in the Country,19,113,10,1
10,The Colony,22,115,4,
11,The Line of Beauty,11,130,17,2
12,Sacred Hunger,38,135,8,1
13,Empire of the Sun,43,139,5,
14,Fingersmith,58,141,6,1
15,Cat's Eye,52,142,5,
16,Midnight's Children,14,147,26,9
17,Amongst Women,16,148,3,
18,Never Let Me Go,32,150,16,1
19,The Black Prince,25,150,4,
20,The Handmaid's Tale,32,150,15,1
21,Lila,44,151,6,1
22,The Siege of Krishnapur,25,152,11,1
23,Bring Up the Bodies,18,152,19,1
24,Cloud Atlas,28,154,15,
25,Milkman,17,158,14,
26,The Sea, the Sea,11,159,15,1
27,How to Be Both,42,164,10,
28,If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things,25,165,4,
29,The Blackwater Lightship,40,169,4,
30,The Master,60,171,6,
31,Darkmans,69,171,6,1
32,The Mirror & The Light,10,176,2,
33,The Garden of Evening Mists,33,177,7,
34,A Little Life,38,178,12,2
35,This Thing of Darkness,19,178,3,1
36,The God of Small Things,22,178,20,
37,The Blind Assassin,18,180,19,1
38,Lanny,44,182,6,
39,In a Strange Room,63,184,6,
40,Umbrella,21,185,4,
41,Orfeo,44,192,6,
42,The Spinning Heart,60,192,5,
43,Wolf Hall,16,192,25,
44,Oryx and Crake,49,193,11,
45,In Ascension,21,195,2,
46,Purple Hibiscus,48,196,6,
47,Mother's Milk,61,197,6,
48,Apeirogon,37,197,3,
49,Waterland,17,199,2,
50,The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,67,200,5,
51,On Beauty,38,202,10,
52,The Moor's Last Sigh,80,203,4,
53,Autumn,31,205,11,
54,Prophet Song,21,206,2,
55,Disgrace,30,206,25,2
56,Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell,45,206,8,
57,Morality Play,51,207,3,
58,Moon Tiger,21,207,15,
59,Spies,41,208,4,
60,The Secret Scripture,64,208,6,
61,A Brief History of Seven Killings,16,215,16,3
62,Bewilderment,50,216,3,
63,The Moor's account,60,216,5,
64,Solar Bones,52,217,9,
65,The Good Doctor,85,217,6,
66,Black Swan Green,45,218,7,
67,The Sisters Brothers,52,219,7,
68,Trust,70,221,5,
69,An Artist of the Floating World,68,221,6,
70,A Long Long Way,60,222,4,
71,Swimming Home,56,224,8,
72,His Bloody Project,35,224,11,
73,Life & Times of Michael K,32,225,12,1
74,Staying On,20,225,7,
75,The Gift of Rain,38,227,2,
76,The Ghost Road,37,227,13,1
77,Elmet,53,227,8,
78,The Dog,28,228,3,
79,Possession,21,228,28,4
80,Rising,7,229,1,
81,The Night Watch,82,230,5,
82,Maps for Lost Lovers,12,230,1,
83,Rumours of Rain,56,230,3,
84,Shuggie Bain,31,232,9,1
85,The Blazing World,48,233,9,1
86,Do not say we have Nothing,42,233,11,
87,Lincoln in the Bardo,29,234,24,2
88,An Awfully Big Adventure,48,235,3,
89,The Sense of an Ending,24,235,29,1
90,The Quickening Maze,82,236,6,
91,Reservoir 13,44,237,10,
92,Normal People,53,237,7,
93,A Passage North,52,238,3,
94,The Bone People,29,240,9,
95,Shalimar the Clown,90,240,5,
96,Lost Children Archive,51,241,5,
97,The English Patient,25,241,20,1
98,A Five-Year Sentence,69,241,5,
99,Flaubert's Parrot,75,242,5,
100,Snowleg,8,242,1,
101,The Beggar Maid,78,243,3,
102,Hot Milk,49,245,13,
103,The Children's Book,24,247,3,
104,The Overstory,68,247,4,
105,The Narrow Road to the Deep North,24,247,23,
106,4 3 2 1,62,247,7,
107,Skippy Dies,46,247,4,
108,Atonement,29,248,13,
109,The Little Stranger,60,248,7,
110,Small Things Like These,52,249,4,
111,Schindler's Ark,42,249,11,
112,Serious Sweet,30,249,3,
113,History of the Rain,59,250,3,
114,A Bend in the River,53,250,3,
115,A Spool of Blue Thread,52,251,10,
116,The Glass Room,65,251,8,
117,An Insular Possession,61,252,2,
118,The Testament of Gideon Mack,27,252,1,
119,Everything Under,42,253,3,
120,The Vivisector,64,255,2,1
121,Self Help,6,255,1,
122,The Lighthouse,101,255,6,
123,Quarantine,92,256,4,
124,How late it was, how late,30,257,8,
125,Room,56,258,10,1
126,Crossing the Lines,12,258,1,
127,The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,56,259,8,
128,The Luminaries,31,262,22,1
129,We Need New Names,53,263,7,
130,Night Boat to Tangier,80,263,5,
131,A Son of War,14,266,1,
132,The Trees,75,266,5,
133,Oscar and Lucinda,43,267,15,1
134,Offshore,49,268,15,1
135,Sea of Poppies,103,268,5,
136,The Lives of Others,58,268,3,
137,The Many,62,268,10,
138,Hotel du Lac,38,269,15,1
139,Life of Pi,32,269,28,3
140,The Secret River,96,270,5,
141,Half-Blood Blues,85,271,5,
142,My Name is Lucy Barton,49,271,15,
143,The Bookshop,99,271,6,
144,The Teleportation Accident,26,274,4,
145,The Year of the Runaways,96,275,5,
146,The Reluctant Fundamentalist,62,275,11,
147,The Comfort of Strangers,22,276,2,
148,Alias Grace,60,277,9,1
149,The Testament of Mary,87,278,8,
150,Brooklyn,67,278,9,
151,The Map of Love,70,280,2,
152,Any Human Heart,106,280,4,
153,Girl, Woman, Other,44,280,11,
154,A Tale for the Time Being,56,280,10,
155,When We Were Orphans,71,281,8,
156,A Fraction of the Whole,46,281,4,
157,Great Granny Webster,43,283,3,
158,The Story of Lucy Gault,58,284,3,
159,Clear Light of Day,75,284,3,
160,The Man Who Saw Everything,82,284,3,
161,Home Fire,56,285,7,
162,The Wake,83,285,6,
163,Washington Black,79,286,5,
164,Work Like Any Other,84,286,5,
165,The Chimes,23,286,2,
166,According to Queeney,50,287,1,
167,So Many Ways to Begin,68,287,4,
168,Good Behaviour,29,287,1,
169,Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha,58,287,11,
170,The Road to Lichfield,91,288,3,
171,The Accidental,95,289,6,
172,The Green Road,79,290,6,
173,The North Water,49,291,8,
174,The Long Take,58,292,3,
175,The Gathering,44,292,22,3
176,Chatterton,35,292,2,
177,I'll Go to Bed at Noon,125,293,4,
178,History of Wolves,70,293,10,
179,Hotel World,47,294,3,
180,Satin Island,97,295,8,
181,We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves,75,295,9,
182,A Cupboard Full of Coats,14,295,1,
183,Netherland,90,297,6,
184,Maps of our Spectacular Bodies,68,300,4,
185,10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World,68,301,3,
186,The Lowland,62,301,9,
187,Slow Man,95,301,4,
188,Saturday,79,301,7,
189,Heat and Dust,41,302,11,
190,Mister Pip,100,302,5,
191,True History of the Kelly Gang,42,302,10,
192,Last Orders,64,302,8,
193,Small World,53,303,2,
194,The Long Song,72,305,4,
195,The Sea,44,306,17,1
196,Study for Obedience,84,309,2,
197,Days Without End,54,309,8,
198,Dorian,97,310,2,
199,Headlong,108,312,4,
200,Astonishing Splashes of Colour,26,312,1,
201,Time's Arrow,70,313,5,
202,Holiday,87,314,5,
203,Rites of Passage,65,315,8,
204,Be Near Me,78,316,2,
205,On Chesil Beach,99,319,9,
206,The House of Doors,72,319,1,
207,Did you ever have a family?,58,319,8,
208,The Testaments,62,320,7,
209,Case Study,90,320,4,
210,The Elected Member,77,321,5,
211,Reef,100,322,3,
212,According to Mark,73,323,2,
213,The Amber Spyglass,48,324,6,
214,The Sweetness of Water,91,324,3,
215,Transatlantic,25,324,2,
216,The Folding Star,47,324,3,
217,The Inheritance of Loss,41,325,17,1
218,China Room,104,326,4,
219,God on the Rocks,121,328,4,
220,C,109,328,6,
221,The Conservationist,94,330,6,1
222,The Shadow King,112,330,3,
223,Saville,47,330,8,
224,Glory,73,330,3,
225,On Canaan's Side,123,331,5,
226,Klara and the Sun,109,331,4,
227,Shame,90,332,4,
228,The Underground Railroad,66,332,11,
229,Notes on a Scandal,66,336,4,
230,The Clothes on Their Backs,63,336,3,
231,The Sellout,44,337,22,
232,The Book of Evidence,84,339,2,
233,The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time,51,339,11,
234,Frankie & Stankie,33,340,1,
235,Lies of Silence,120,340,4,
236,Love and Other Thought Experiments,63,340,2,
237,The Good Apprentice,86,342,2,
Mod
238,The Fishermen,104,342,6,
239,Quartet in Autumn,125,342,3,
240,The White Tiger,43,342,22,1
241,Trespass,68,343,3,
242,Warlight,102,343,4,
243,All That Man Is,73,344,11,
244,The Welsh Girl,65,344,3,
245,Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont,115,345,2,
246,From a Low and Quiet Sea,92,345,4,
247,In Our Mad and Furious City,85,345,5,
248,Last Letters from Hav,52,347,1,
249,Scar Tissue,52,347,1,
250,Bitter Fruit,52,347,1,
251,Unless,104,347,3,
252,The Yips,128,348,3,
253,Eileen,71,351,14,
254,Exit West,80,351,10,
255,Paradise,63,352,3,
256,The Nice and the Good,96,353,2,
257,number9dream,100,353,7,
258,The Public Image,91,353,3,
259,A Case of Exploding Mangoes,57,353,4,
260,The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,119,353,5,
261,The Electric Michelangelo,139,353,3,
262,Second Place,93,354,4,
263,The Ministry of Utmost Happiness,95,357,4,
264,In a Free State,80,357,9,
265,Clear: A Transparent Novel,103,358,4,
266,Pearl,93,360,2,
267,Amsterdam,55,362,17,1
268,Narcopolis,65,365,3,
269,Parrot and Olivier in America,119,365,4,
270,An Island,110,366,3,
271,The Fortune Men,106,366,3,
272,The Water Cure,130,366,5,
273,Quichotte,113,367,2,
274,February,54,367,3,
275,The Bone Clocks,96,370,6,
276,The Stone Carvers,41,371,1,
277,The People's Act of Love,124,371,2,
278,The Stranger's Child,61,374,3,
279,The Promise,94,375,3,
280,Carry Me Down,144,376,5,
281,The Gate of Angels,98,378,2,
282,Gossip from the Forest,111,379,2,
283,Family Matters,153,379,4,
284,The Famished Road,99,379,7,1
285,Master Georgie,113,380,1,
286,The Other Side of the Bridge,56,381,2,
287,Fasting, Feasting,109,381,2,
288,Confederates,114,381,1,
289,Skios,65,382,4,
290,Theft: A Love Story,77,383,3,
291,G.,141,388,3,
292,Love and Summer,85,389,3,
293,The Good Terrorist,117,391,3,
294,Swing Time,91,391,8,
295,After Sappho,88,393,3,
296,The Satanic Verses,118,394,4,
297,The Ruby in her Navel,123,395,1,
298,The Bottle Factory Outing,126,396,3,
299,How Much of These Hills is Gold?,129,396,3,
300,Illywhacker,123,396,2,
301,Remembering Babylon,143,397,3,
302,Snowdrops,93,398,5,
303,From A to X,112,398,3,
304,The Northern Clemency,142,398,5,
305,Us,64,399,4,
306,The Finkler Question,54,400,15,1
307,An Orchestra of Minorities,102,400,2,
308,Such a Long Journey,130,401,2,
309,The Enchantress of Florence,112,402,3,
310,Peacetime,49,402,1,
311,Something to Answer For,108,402,5,
312,The Great Fire,99,406,3,
313,Utz,155,409,2,
314,The New Wilderness,136,409,3,
315,Animal's People,83,412,3,
316,The Van,27,412,1,
317,Turn Again Home,52,414,1,
318,The Schooldays of Jesus,162,414,2,
319,Loitering with Intent,136,414,1,
320,Beyond Black,138,415,2,
321,Jigsaw,138,417,1,
322,Brick Lane,120,417,5,
323,This Other Eden,130,418,2,
324,Our Fathers,83,420,2,
325,The Old Devils,97,421,9,
326,Grace Notes,115,421,2,
327,Restoration,141,422,1,
328,Nice Work,144,422,2,
329,Booth,130,422,4,
330,The Kills,37,423,2,
331,Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel,142,423,1,
332,An Instant in the Wind,118,426,2,
333,The Wall,133,427,4,
334,No Country for Young Men,145,430,2,
335,Eva Trout,147,430,1,
336,If I Survive You,163,432,2,
337,The Sirian Experiments,149,433,1,
338,The Autograph Man,136,433,4,
339,The Doctor's Wife,174,434,3,
340,Vernon God Little,65,434,15,
341,The Children of Dynmouth,152,439,2,
342,Kalooki Nights,154,441,1,
343,In the Country of Men,157,443,4,
344,Unexploded,99,443,2,
345,The Mars Room,89,447,4,
346,Such a Fun Age,155,448,4,
347,Under the Frog,161,449,3,
348,No One is Talking About This,124,449,4,
349,Knowledge of Angels,134,449,2,
350,Sour Sweet,160,450,1,
351,How to Paint a Dead Man,150,450,3,
352,Havoc, in its Third Year,62,453,1,
353,Anthills of the Savannah,162,455,2,
354,Frankissstein,75,457,3,
355,The Stone Diaries,85,457,3,
356,Every Man for Himself,132,459,3,
357,Schopenhauer's Telescope,64,461,1,
358,Old God's Time,173,461,2,
359,The Redundancy of Courage,169,463,1,
360,To the Last City,65,465,1,
361,Impossible Object,170,465,1,
362,Jamrach's Menagerie,98,468,4,
363,A Town Called Solace,164,469,3,
364,The Battle of Pollocks Crossing,147,469,2,
365,Oh William!,139,470,4,
366,To Rise Again at a Decent Hour,143,472,4,
367,St Urbain's Horseman,101,474,1,
368,King Fisher Lives,101,474,1,
369,Peter Smart's Confessions,101,474,1,
370,Gabriel's Lament,101,474,1,
371,What's Bred in the Bone,101,474,1,
372,Crossing the River,101,474,1,
373,A Disaffection,155,474,3,
374,Heliopolis,65,474,1,
375,The Wilderness,65,474,1,
376,The Illuminations,43,476,3,
377,The Restraint of Beasts,160,478,2,
378,John Brown's Body,181,481,1,
379,The Essence of the Thing,160,483,4,
380,The Island Walkers,70,484,1,
381,Child 44,74,486,4,
382,Gathering the Water,173,487,2,
383,The Underground Man,184,488,2,
384,The Taxi Driver's Daughter,71,488,1,
385,Real Life,165,491,3,
386,The Lost Dog,144,492,4,
387,The Book and the Brotherhood,188,493,2,
388,Burnt Sugar,163,495,3,
389,Five Star Billionaire,93,496,3,
390,Black Dogs,67,498,2,
391,English Passengers,189,498,2,
392,The Romantic,74,500,1,
393,My Sister, the Serial Killer,128,502,4,
394,All the Little Bird-Hearts,196,503,1,
395,Treacle Walker,155,505,4,
396,J,116,505,2,
397,The Driver's Seat,116,510,2,
398,The Orchard on Fire,119,514,2,
399,Hystopia,21,515,2,
400,Philida,207,519,1,
401,The Emperor's Children,148,521,3,
402,The Beginning of Spring,208,521,1,
403,Light Perpetual,155,522,3,
404,Redhead by The Side of the Road,185,525,3,
405,Solomon Gursky Was Here,185,525,2,
406,The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith,211,525,1,
407,Briefing for a Descent into Hell,150,526,3,
408,England, England,167,526,2,
409,Pigeon English,120,529,3,
410,What was Lost,195,531,2,
411,The Riders,124,534,2,
412,The Butcher Boy,84,539,2,
413,How to Build a Boat,177,540,2,
414,Shroud,221,540,1,
415,Nightcrawling,164,540,3,
416,Beside the Ocean of Time,196,541,2,
417,The Deposition of Father McGreevy,222,542,1,
418,Pascali's Island,224,546,2,
419,Snap,110,546,4,
420,Great Circle,177,547,2,
421,Reading Turgenev,226,548,1,
422,Far To Go,80,548,2,
423,A Spell of Good Things,187,549,2,
424,Heligoland,87,550,1,
425,The Dark Room,228,551,1,
426,By The Sea,89,558,1,
427,The Slap,67,564,3,
428,In the Fold,176,567,2,
429,Western Lane,211,578,2,
430,Dirt Music,204,578,2,
431,This Mournable Body,176,584,2,
432,In Custody,229,590,2,
433,Elizabeth Costello,255,591,1,
434,Critical Injuries,98,593,1,
435,The Industry of Souls,258,595,1,
436,Waxwings,100,601,1,
437,The Colour of Blood,246,616,2,
438,The Mulberry Empire,107,628,1,
439,Judge Savage,108,632,1,
440,Europa,262,639,2,
441,The Next Big Thing,288,640,1,
442,The Dressmaker,289,641,1,
443,The Birds on the Trees,167,643,1,
444,Pasmore,167,643,1,
445,Ending Up,167,643,1,
446,In Their Wisdom,167,643,1,
447,Shadows on our Skin,167,643,1,
448,Jake's Thing,167,643,1,
449,Circles of Deceit,167,643,1,
450,In Every Face I Meet,167,643,1,
451,Reading in the Dark,167,643,1,
452,The Hiding Place,167,643,1,
453,Get a Life,293,647,1,
454,Sleeping on Jupiter,297,653,1,
455,Oxygen,299,656,1,
456,The Harmony Silk Factory,116,663,1,
457,How to be Good,113,666,1,
458,Me Cheeta,113,666,1,
459,The Bee Sting,263,671,2,
460,The Testament of Jessie Lamb,134,689,2,
461,The Bay of Noon,322,690,1,
462,The Keepers of Truth,123,691,1,
463,Breakfast on Pluto,324,693,1,
464,The Perfect Man,328,699,1,
465,Consolation,126,702,1,
466,Not Untrue and Not Unkind,124,711,1,
467,The White Hotel,336,711,1,
468,Joseph,337,712,1,
469,The Pickup,129,714,1,
470,A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian,347,727,1,
471,Bruno's Dream,349,730,1,
472,All for Love,135,737,1,
473,Sabrina,108,740,1,
474,Who They Was,359,745,1,
Well, after the better part of an hour, here is my list. I could do this exercise tomorrow and probably get a completely different list, but the top 5 feel pretty solid to me.Big thanks to Hugh for talking on the hurculean task of collating all this data into a single list.
1. Earthly Powers
2. Atonement
3. Fingersmith
4. Cloud Atlas
5. Darkmans
6. Never Let Me Go
7. Brooklyn
8. Reservoir 13
9. Solar Bones
10. Eileen
11. Skippy Dies
12. The Lowland
13. The Yips
14. The Night Watch
15. The Little Stranger
16. The Comfort of Strangers
17. The Blackwater Lightship
18. The Folding Star
19. The Testament of Mary
20. Clear: A Transparent Novel
21.The Handmaid's Tale
22. The Lighthouse
23. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
24. A Spool of Blue Thread
25. Hot Milk
26. The Stranger’s Child
27. Satin Island
28. Saturday
29. Black Swan Green
30. On Beauty
31. So Many Ways to Begin
32. Days Without End
33. Harvest
34. Autumn
35. Umbrella
36. Home Fire
37. number9dream
38. Swimming Home
39. On Chesil Beach
40. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
41. On Canaan's Side
42. The Green Road
43. In a Strange Room
44. Jamrach’s Menagerie
45. Mother’s Milk
46. The Master
47. The Satanic Verses
48. Time’s Arrow
49. Did you ever have a family?
50. The Bone Clocks
51. C
52. Elmet
53. Black Dogs
54. Swing Time
55. All That Man Is
56. The Blazing World
57. Room
58. The Good Doctor
59. History of Wolves
60. The Quickening Maze
61. Exit West
62. Serious Sweet
63. My Name is Lucy Barton
64. Snow Drops
65. The Long Song
66. Skios
67. Parrot and Olivier in America
68. The Teleportation Accident
69. The Many
70. A Cupboard Full of Coats
71. A Little Life
72. The Kills
Mod
Pos, Book, Average, Adjusted, Count, First Places
1,The Remains of the Day,9,1025,27,4
2,A Fine Balance,8,906,7,4
3,Midnight's Children,13,792,26,9
4,Wolf Hall,15,803,25,
5,The Line of Beauty,10,800,17,2
6,A Month in the Country,18,806,10,1
7,Bring Up the Bodies,17,770,19,1
8,The Sea, the Sea,11,765,15,1
9,Earthly Powers,5,728,4,1
10,Cloud Atlas,28,663,15,
11,Harvest,32,627,9,1
12,Arthur & George,34,635,6,
13,Troubles,12,607,8,1
14,Never Let Me Go,32,585,16,1
15,The Blind Assassin,18,570,19,1
16,Milkman,17,572,14,
17,Moon Tiger,20,525,15,
18,On Beauty,37,526,10,
19,The Garden of Evening Mists,33,524,7,
20,The Colony,22,543,4,
21,Ducks, Newburyport,7,503,4,
22,The Black Prince,25,497,4,
23,How to Be Both,42,467,10,
24,If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things,25,483,4,
25,The Mirror & The Light,10,501,2,
26,The Handmaid's Tale,31,472,15,1
27,The God of Small Things,22,459,20,
28,The Children's Book,23,469,3,
29,Summertime,43,454,5,
30,Amongst Women,15,463,3,
31,Staying On,19,440,7,
32,Prophet Song,21,457,2,
33,In Ascension,21,457,2,
34,Atonement,29,430,13,
35,Apeirogon,37,427,3,
36,A Brief History of Seven Killings,16,379,16,3
37,Autumn,30,409,11,
38,Waterland,16,399,2,
39,Morality Play,51,383,3,
40,The Gift of Rain,38,391,2,
41,Spies,41,367,4,
42,Cat's Eye,51,372,5,
43,Black Swan Green,45,353,7,
44,Bewilderment,50,351,3,
45,A Long Long Way,60,338,4,
46,The Siege of Krishnapur,25,314,11,1
47,The Narrow Road to the Deep North,23,323,23,
48,Possession,21,323,28,4
49,An Insular Possession,60,317,2,
50,Lanny,43,330,6,
51,Maps for Lost Lovers,12,332,1,
52,The Story of Lucy Gault,58,330,3,
53,A Passage North,52,337,3,
54,The Lives of Others,57,311,3,
55,Lost Children Archive,51,316,5,
56,Do not say we have Nothing,42,309,11,
57,The Secret Scripture,63,312,6,
58,An Awfully Big Adventure,48,299,3,
59,How late it was, how late,30,292,8,
60,The Master,59,290,6,
61,Clear Light of Day,75,287,3,
62,The Testament of Gideon Mack,27,302,1,
63,The Blackwater Lightship,40,300,4,
64,Small Things Like These,52,303,4,
65,The Bone People,29,298,9,
66,This Thing of Darkness,18,291,3,1
67,Orfeo,44,276,6,
68,The Chimes,22,281,2,
69,Lila,43,265,6,1
70,The Moor's Last Sigh,79,245,4,
71,The English Patient,25,245,20,1
72,Everything Under,42,282,3,
73,Rumours of Rain,56,263,3,
74,Purple Hibiscus,48,251,6,
75,According to Mark,73,256,2,
76,According to Queeney,50,256,1,
77,In a Strange Room,62,246,6,
78,Empire of the Sun,43,226,5,
79,His Bloody Project,35,246,11,
80,History of the Rain,59,245,3,
81,An Artist of the Floating World,67,234,6,
82,Life & Times of Michael K,31,216,12,1
83,The Sense of an Ending,24,216,29,1
84,Swimming Home,55,238,8,
85,The Map of Love,69,217,2,
86,The Book of Evidence,83,216,2,
87,Skippy Dies,46,206,4,
88,The House of Doors,72,214,1,
89,Love and Other Thought Experiments,63,214,2,
90,Heat and Dust,40,212,11,
91,The Good Apprentice,85,208,2,
92,The Glass Room,65,194,8,
93,Shuggie Bain,31,195,9,1
94,The Road to Lichfield,90,193,3,
95,10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World,67,207,3,
96,Rising,6,189,1,
97,Study for Obedience,84,207,2,
98,Umbrella,21,194,4,
99,Reservoir 13,43,186,10,
100,Be Near Me,78,183,2,
101,Hotel World,47,190,3,
102,Sacred Hunger,38,167,8,1
103,The Long Take,58,186,3,
104,Oryx and Crake,49,151,11,
105,Maps of our Spectacular Bodies,67,181,4,
106,The Beggar Maid,77,155,3,
107,A Bend in the River,52,170,3,
108,The Overstory,68,177,4,
109,Pearl,92,173,2,
110,Glory,73,173,3,
111,The Vivisector,63,174,2,1
112,The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,67,160,5,
113,Hot Milk,49,155,13,
114,Normal People,52,165,7,
115,The Blazing World,47,155,9,1
116,The Gate of Angels,97,153,2,
117,Good Behaviour,29,136,1,
118,So Many Ways to Begin,67,146,4,
119,Trust,69,136,5,
120,Flaubert's Parrot,75,138,5,
121,Mother's Milk,61,115,6,
122,Master Georgie,113,132,1,
123,The Ghost Road,36,137,13,1
124,Confederates,114,130,1,
125,After Sappho,87,125,3,
126,Snowleg,8,121,1,
127,The Man Who Saw Everything,81,123,3,
128,Crossing the Lines,12,113,1,
129,The Moor's account,60,114,5,
130,A Son of War,14,109,1,
131,The Spinning Heart,60,103,5,
132,Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont,114,94,2,
133,The Ruby in her Navel,123,112,1,
134,Gossip from the Forest,110,108,2,
135,Half-Blood Blues,84,95,5,
136,The Comfort of Strangers,21,104,2,
137,The Sweetness of Water,90,107,3,
138,Saville,47,113,8,
139,The Dog,28,104,3,
140,Serious Sweet,29,100,3,
141,Disgrace,30,57,25,2
142,A Fraction of the Whole,46,98,4,
143,A Five-Year Sentence,69,84,5,
144,Last Letters from Hav,52,90,1,
145,Scar Tissue,52,90,1,
146,Bitter Fruit,52,90,1,
147,Quichotte,112,93,2,
148,Chatterton,35,87,2,
149,Unexploded,98,103,2,
150,Days Without End,53,101,8,
151,The Folding Star,47,81,3,
152,The Promise,94,89,3,
153,Astonishing Splashes of Colour,26,85,1,
154,The Nice and the Good,96,83,2,
155,The Trees,75,82,5,
156,Loitering with Intent,136,86,1,
157,Reef,100,61,3,
158,A Tale for the Time Being,55,88,10,
159,Shame,89,80,4,
160,Home Fire,56,80,7,
161,Jigsaw,138,82,1,
162,Grace Notes,114,87,2,
163,Fingersmith,58,45,6,1
164,Quarantine,91,63,4,
165,Restoration,141,76,1,
166,Frankie & Stankie,33,71,1,
167,Alias Grace,59,70,9,1
168,Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel,142,74,1,
169,Fasting, Feasting,108,61,2,
170,True History of the Kelly Gang,42,76,10,
171,Paradise,63,62,3,
172,Schindler's Ark,42,41,11,
173,The Teleportation Accident,25,66,4,
174,An Instant in the Wind,117,75,2,
175,The Welsh Girl,64,67,3,
176,The Reluctant Fundamentalist,61,51,11,
177,My Name is Lucy Barton,48,34,15,
178,Illywhacker,122,60,2,
179,Eva Trout,147,64,1,
180,The Sirian Experiments,149,60,1,
181,A Little Life,38,53,12,2
182,Transatlantic,25,60,2,
183,The Stone Carvers,41,55,1,
184,Narcopolis,65,44,3,
185,When We Were Orphans,71,37,8,
186,Self Help,6,58,1,
187,Unless,104,58,3,
188,The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,55,63,8,
189,Kalooki Nights,154,50,1,
190,The Other Side of the Bridge,56,46,2,
191,Darkmans,68,23,6,1
192,The Sisters Brothers,52,55,7,
193,Peacetime,49,39,1,
194,Sour Sweet,160,38,1,
195,Turn Again Home,52,33,1,
196,A Cupboard Full of Coats,14,31,1,
197,The Secret River,95,44,5,
198,Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell,45,21,8,
199,Great Granny Webster,43,23,3,
200,Night Boat to Tangier,80,30,5,
201,The Green Road,79,30,6,
202,This Other Eden,130,23,2,
203,Second Place,92,18,4,
204,An Orchestra of Minorities,101,22,2,
205,Did you ever have a family?,58,37,8,
206,The Fortune Men,105,20,3,
207,The Redundancy of Courage,169,20,1,
208,Impossible Object,170,18,1,
209,The Clothes on Their Backs,62,18,3,
210,Solar Bones,52,9,9,
211,Small World,52,15,2,
212,Lincoln in the Bardo,28,-7,24,2
213,February,54,15,3,
214,The People's Act of Love,124,-1,2,
215,Havoc, in its Third Year,62,13,1,
216,Theft: A Love Story,77,12,3,
217,Dorian,97,3,2,
218,Schopenhauer's Telescope,64,9,1,
219,To the Last City,65,7,1,
220,Case Study,89,3,4,
221,Knowledge of Angels,133,11,2,
222,Hystopia,20,5,2,
223,Heliopolis,65,3,1,
224,The Wilderness,65,3,1,
225,John Brown's Body,181,-4,1,
226,The Quickening Maze,82,-13,6,
227,The Island Walkers,70,-3,1,
228,The Kills,37,-4,2,
229,The Luminaries,30,-9,22,1
230,Any Human Heart,105,-32,4,
231,Our Fathers,83,-7,2,
232,The Taxi Driver's Daughter,71,-5,1,
233,An Island,110,-11,3,
234,Quartet in Autumn,124,-13,3,
235,In Our Mad and Furious City,85,-16,5,
236,St Urbain's Horseman,101,-10,1,
237,King Fisher Lives,101,-10,1,
Mod
238,Peter Smart's Confessions,101,-10,1,
239,Gabriel's Lament,101,-10,1,
240,What's Bred in the Bone,101,-10,1,
241,Crossing the River,101,-10,1,
242,The Good Doctor,84,-42,6,
243,Such a Long Journey,129,-23,2,
244,The Shadow King,112,-22,3,
245,The Bottle Factory Outing,126,-19,3,
246,The Romantic,74,-11,1,
247,From a Low and Quiet Sea,92,-15,4,
248,A Spool of Blue Thread,52,-29,10,
249,Trespass,67,-16,3,
250,The Night Watch,81,-24,5,
251,The Public Image,91,-20,3,
252,No Country for Young Men,145,-30,2,
253,The Van,27,-19,1,
254,Elmet,52,-27,8,
255,All the Little Bird-Hearts,196,-34,1,
256,The Driver's Seat,115,-35,2,
257,A Case of Exploding Mangoes,56,-33,4,
258,The Long Song,71,-41,4,
259,Us,64,-25,4,
260,The Stranger's Child,60,-34,3,
261,Heligoland,87,-37,1,
262,The Great Fire,98,-43,3,
263,Beyond Black,137,-55,2,
264,By The Sea,89,-41,1,
265,Love and Summer,84,-51,3,
266,Girl, Woman, Other,44,-67,11,
267,The Illuminations,43,-41,3,
268,The Children of Dynmouth,151,-56,2,
269,Philida,207,-56,1,
270,The Battle of Pollocks Crossing,147,-43,2,
271,The Beginning of Spring,208,-58,1,
272,The Ministry of Utmost Happiness,94,-70,4,
273,The Good Terrorist,116,-78,3,
274,Animal's People,82,-62,3,
275,The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith,211,-64,1,
276,4 3 2 1,61,-74,7,
277,Critical Injuries,98,-57,1,
278,China Room,104,-74,4,
279,Waxwings,100,-61,1,
280,Work Like Any Other,84,-81,5,
281,We Need New Names,53,-73,7,
282,Shroud,221,-84,1,
283,The Deposition of Father McGreevy,222,-86,1,
284,Sea of Poppies,103,-93,5,
285,The Mulberry Empire,107,-75,1,
286,Black Dogs,67,-75,2,
287,Judge Savage,108,-77,1,
288,Anthills of the Savannah,162,-98,2,
289,Reading Turgenev,226,-94,1,
290,Hotel du Lac,38,-105,15,1
291,Warlight,101,-93,4,
292,The Dark Room,228,-98,1,
293,Frankissstein,75,-89,3,
294,The Little Stranger,59,-93,7,
295,The Butcher Boy,84,-92,2,
296,Mister Pip,100,-109,5,
297,Headlong,108,-110,4,
298,How to be Good,112,-91,1,
299,Me Cheeta,112,-91,1,
300,If I Survive You,162,-107,2,
301,The Lowland,61,-119,9,
302,The Harmony Silk Factory,116,-93,1,
303,Klara and the Sun,109,-112,4,
304,Sabrina,108,-104,1,
305,From A to X,112,-114,3,
306,Shalimar the Clown,90,-128,5,
307,The Year of the Runaways,96,-136,5,
308,Brooklyn,67,-136,9,
309,Washington Black,79,-119,5,
310,The Keepers of Truth,123,-107,1,
311,Life of Pi,31,-141,28,3
312,Notes on a Scandal,66,-114,4,
313,Every Man for Himself,131,-106,3,
314,How Much of These Hills is Gold?,129,-123,3,
315,Consolation,126,-113,1,
316,Not Untrue and Not Unkind,123,-113,1,
317,The Electric Michelangelo,139,-145,3,
318,The Amber Spyglass,47,-134,6,
319,Far To Go,79,-116,2,
320,The Testaments,61,-135,7,
321,The Elected Member,77,-128,5,
322,The Accidental,95,-149,6,
323,The Pickup,129,-119,1,
324,Last Orders,64,-131,8,
325,The Stone Diaries,85,-123,3,
326,Slow Man,95,-150,4,
327,Oscar and Lucinda,43,-160,15,1
328,The North Water,49,-130,8,
329,Old God's Time,173,-149,2,
330,The Schooldays of Jesus,162,-158,2,
331,All for Love,135,-131,1,
332,The Restraint of Beasts,159,-147,2,
333,Utz,155,-154,2,
334,The Mars Room,89,-145,4,
335,Skios,65,-143,4,
336,Elizabeth Costello,255,-152,1,
337,The New Wilderness,135,-162,3,
338,Great Circle,177,-163,2,
339,J,115,-142,2,
340,How to Build a Boat,177,-163,2,
341,The Industry of Souls,258,-158,1,
342,The Birds on the Trees,166,-145,1,
343,Pasmore,166,-145,1,
344,Ending Up,166,-145,1,
345,In Their Wisdom,166,-145,1,
346,Shadows on our Skin,166,-145,1,
347,Jake's Thing,166,-145,1,
348,Circles of Deceit,166,-145,1,
349,In Every Face I Meet,166,-145,1,
350,Reading in the Dark,166,-145,1,
351,The Hiding Place,166,-145,1,
352,Remembering Babylon,142,-169,3,
353,The Orchard on Fire,119,-152,2,
354,The Bookshop,98,-196,6,
355,The Slap,66,-154,3,
356,Holiday,86,-195,5,
357,Nice Work,143,-183,2,
358,The Underground Man,184,-186,2,
359,Gathering the Water,173,-197,2,
360,The Riders,124,-172,2,
361,Five Star Billionaire,92,-175,3,
362,The Book and the Brotherhood,187,-200,2,
363,A Spell of Good Things,186,-201,2,
364,The Wake,83,-194,6,
365,Solomon Gursky Was Here,184,-193,2,
366,I'll Go to Bed at Noon,124,-210,4,
367,England, England,166,-200,2,
368,The Enchantress of Florence,112,-205,3,
369,The Next Big Thing,288,-218,1,
370,We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves,75,-191,9,
371,The Dressmaker,289,-220,1,
372,Lies of Silence,119,-209,4,
373,In the Fold,176,-207,2,
374,The Inheritance of Loss,40,-211,17,1
375,Get a Life,293,-228,1,
376,God on the Rocks,120,-234,4,
377,No One is Talking About This,123,-224,4,
378,The Satanic Verses,117,-226,4,
379,Sleeping on Jupiter,297,-236,1,
380,The Testament of Mary,87,-234,8,
381,Oxygen,299,-240,1,
382,Room,56,-241,10,1
383,This Mournable Body,175,-235,2,
384,The Sea,43,-235,17,1
385,Beside the Ocean of Time,195,-237,2,
386,Time's Arrow,70,-221,5,
387,Clear: A Transparent Novel,102,-234,4,
388,Child 44,74,-231,4,
389,The Many,61,-245,10,
390,Rites of Passage,65,-263,8,
391,The Lighthouse,100,-252,6,
392,English Passengers,188,-257,2,
393,Saturday,79,-257,7,
394,Parrot and Olivier in America,119,-270,4,
395,A Disaffection,154,-269,3,
396,How to Paint a Dead Man,150,-274,3,
397,Light Perpetual,155,-277,3,
398,G.,141,-284,3,
399,The Bay of Noon,322,-286,1,
400,The Fishermen,104,-298,6,
401,What was Lost,195,-287,2,
402,Netherland,90,-289,6,
403,Breakfast on Pluto,324,-288,1,
404,The Testament of Jessie Lamb,133,-262,2,
405,Western Lane,211,-299,2,
406,The Perfect Man,328,-296,1,
407,The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time,51,-301,11,
408,Booth,130,-321,4,
409,History of Wolves,69,-323,10,
410,The White Hotel,336,-312,1,
411,Burnt Sugar,162,-322,3,
412,Pigeon English,120,-290,3,
413,Joseph,337,-314,1,
414,The Yips,128,-318,3,
415,Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha,57,-331,11,
416,Nightcrawling,163,-327,3,
417,Dirt Music,204,-319,2,
418,Offshore,48,-347,15,1
419,A Town Called Solace,164,-335,3,
420,The Underground Railroad,66,-341,11,
421,Real Life,165,-339,3,
422,A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian,347,-332,1,
423,The Wall,133,-339,4,
424,Family Matters,152,-326,4,
425,Pascali's Island,223,-340,2,
426,Bruno's Dream,349,-336,1,
427,On Canaan's Side,123,-357,5,
428,Jamrach's Menagerie,97,-325,4,
429,The Emperor's Children,148,-351,3,
430,Who They Was,359,-350,1,
431,Briefing for a Descent into Hell,150,-358,3,
432,The Doctor's Wife,173,-361,3,
433,C,108,-353,6,
434,To Rise Again at a Decent Hour,142,-350,4,
435,In Custody,228,-369,2,
436,Snowdrops,92,-354,5,
437,Brick Lane,119,-361,5,
438,Oh William!,138,-383,4,
439,My Sister, the Serial Killer,128,-379,4,
440,Under the Frog,160,-384,3,
441,In the Country of Men,156,-381,4,
442,Snap,109,-398,4,
443,All That Man is,72,-378,11,
444,Satin Island,96,-404,8,
445,The Bone Clocks,95,-399,6,
446,The Autograph Man,136,-406,4,
447,The Conservationist,94,-413,6,1
448,Something to Answer For,108,-428,5,
449,Carry Me Down,143,-432,5,
450,Swing Time,91,-434,8,
451,In a Free State,79,-423,9,
452,The Colour of Blood,246,-437,2,
453,Redhead by The Side of the Road,185,-457,3,
454,The Water Cure,130,-470,5,
455,The Lost Dog,143,-449,4,
456,The Gathering,44,-469,22,3
457,Such a Fun Age,154,-474,4,
458,Exit West,80,-488,10,
459,Treacle Walker,154,-468,4,
460,The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,119,-472,5,
461,The Bee Sting,263,-503,2,
462,Europa,261,-493,2,
463,On Chesil Beach,99,-517,9,
464,The Essence of the Thing,160,-530,4,
465,The Northern Clemency,141,-528,5,
466,number9dream,99,-574,7,
467,The Sellout,43,-587,22,
468,The Famished Road,99,-584,7,1
469,The White Tiger,43,-607,22,1
470,Amsterdam,54,-661,17,1
471,Eileen,70,-690,14,
472,The Finkler Question,54,-712,15,1
473,The Old Devils,96,-815,9,
474,Vernon God Little,64,-841,15,
"I've learned my lesson, I've been edified... in matters of the heart." ~Tracy Chapman
5 stars:
1. Patrick White: The Vivisector (1970)
2. Deborah Levy: Hot Milk (2016)
3. Lucy Ellmann: Ducks, Newburyport (2019)
4. Deborah Levy: The Man Who Saw Everything (2019)
5. Steve Toltz: A Fraction of the Whole (2008)
6. Edward Docx: Self Help (2007)
7. Daisy Johnson: Everything Under (2018)
8. Wyl Menmuir: The Many (2016)
9. Colm Tóibín: The Blackwater Lightship (1999)
4 stars:
10. Deborah Levy: Swimming Home (2012)
11. Anna Burns: Milkman (2018)
12. Rose Tremain: Trespass (2010)
13. Audrey Magee: The Colony (2022)
14. Maddie Mortimer: Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies (2022)
15. Will Self: Umbrella (2012)
16. Zadie Smith: On Beauty (2005)
17. Kevin Barry: Night Boat to Tangier (2019)
18. A. L. Kennedy: Serious Sweet (2016)
19. Hernan Diaz: Trust (2022)
20. Max Porter: Lanny (2019)
21. Sally Rooney: Normal People (2018)
22. Marilynne Robinson: Lila (2015)
23. Graeme Macrae Burnet: Case Study (2022)
24. Ali Smith: The Accidental (2005)
25. Adam Foulds: The Quickening Maze (2009)
26. David Means: Hystopia (2016)
27. Mike McCormack: Solar Bones (2017)
28. Edward St. Aubyn: Mother's Milk (2006)
29. Emily Fridlund: History of Wolves (2017)
30. Chigozie Obioma: An Orchestra of Minorities (2019)
31. Sophie Mackintosh: The Water Cure (2018)
32. John Banville: The Sea (2005)
33. Fiona Mozley: Elmet (2017)
34. Richard Powers: The Overstory (2018)
35. Ali Smith: Hotel World (2001)
36. Ali Smith: Autumn (2017)
37. Esi Edugyan: Washington Black (2018)
38. Zadie Smith: Swing Time (2017)
3 stars:
39. Jon McGregor: Reservoir 13 (2017)
40. Robin Robertson: The Long Take (2018)
41. Virginia Reeves: Work Like Any Other (2016)
42. Karen Joy Fowler: Booth (2022)
43. Claire Keegan: Small Things Like These (2022)
44. Shehan Karunatilaka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (2022)
45. Elif Shafak: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (2019)
46. Ali Smith: How to be Both (2014)
47. Julian Barnes: The Sense of an Ending (2011)
48. Michael Ondaatje: Warlight (2018)
49. Jeanette Winterson: Frankissstein: A Love Story (2019)
50. Doris Lessing: The Good Terrorist (1985)
51. Rachel Kushner: The Mars Room (2018)
52. Donal Ryan: From a Low and Quiet Sea (2018)
53: NoViolet Bulawayo: Glory (2022)
54. Sebastian Barry: Days Without End (2017)
55. David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas (2004)
56. Elizabeth Strout: Oh William! (2022)
57. Ottessa Moshfegh: Eileen (2016)
58. Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad (2017)
59. John Lanchester: The Wall (2019)
60. Bernardine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other (2019)
61. Valeria Luiselli: Lost Children Archive (2019)
62. Mohsin Hamid: Exit West (2017)
63. Kamilla Shamsie: Home Fire (2017)
64. Donal Ryan: The Spinning Heart (2013)
65. Guy Gunaratne: In Our Mad and Furious City (2018)
2 stars:
66. George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo (2017)
67. Percival Everett: The Trees (2022)
68. Oyinkan Braithwaite: My Sister, the Serial Killer (2019)
69. Madeleine St. John: The Essence of the Thing (1997)
70. Belinda Bauer: Snap (2018)
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The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (2014)
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt (2014)
History of the Rain by Niall Williams (2014)
Us by David Nicholls (2014)
Orfeo by Richard Powers (2014)
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth (2014)
The Dog by Joseph O'Neill (2014)
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami (2015)
Did You Ever Have a Family? by Bill Clegg (2015)
Lila by Marilynne Robinson (2015)
The Green Road by Anne Enright (2015)
The Chimes by Anna Smaill (2015)
Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy (2015)
The Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan (2015)
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (2016)
The North Water by Ian McGuire (2016)
The Many by Wyl Menmuir (2016)
The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee (2016)
Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves (2016)
Serious Sweet by A. L. Kennedy (2016)
Hystopia by David Means (2016)
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry (2017)
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack (2017)
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor (2017)
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy (2017)
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (2017)
Swing Time by Zadie Smith (2017)
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2017)
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje (2018)
From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan (2018)
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh (2018)
Snap by Belinda Bauer (2018)
In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne (2018)
Normal People by Sally Rooney (2018)
Sabrina by Nick Drnaso (2018)
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry (2019)
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (2019)
The Wall by John Lanchester (2019)
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy (2019)
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli (2019)
Lanny by Max Porter (2019)
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson (2019)
Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze (2020)
The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel (2020)
Apeirogon by Colum McCann (2020)
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (2020)
Redhead by The Side of the Road by Anne Tyler (2020)
Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward (2020)
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang (2020)
Second Place by Rachel Cusk (2021)
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris (2021)
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (2021)
An Island by Karen Jennings (2021)
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson (2021)
China Room by Sunjeev Sahota (2021)
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford (2021)
Trust by Hernan Diaz (2022)
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler (2022)
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet (2022)
The Colony by Audrey Magee (2022)
Maps of our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer (2022)
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley (2022)
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz (2022)
A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (2023)
Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry (2023)
How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney (2023)
Pearl by Siân Hughes (2023)
All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow (2023)
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes (2023)
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (2023)
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Thoughts on how we can improve or tidy the rankings topics.
Seeing as interest has waned to the point of inexistence I propose we close these rankings once and for all.
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Great! I've been the only one active here for the past half year or so, so thought I'd propose termination - but you're right.
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I have added one book to my list, and updated the tables including your latest update. I have at least two more on the to-read shelf, but it may be a while before I get to them.
Incidentally, we now have quite a lot of these occasional ongoing rankings (the two Booker ones, Goldsmiths shortlists, MBI winners etc), and because updated comments don't generate notifications, I am not always aware that the tables need updating. So if you do want the tables updated I am happy to accept requests via private messages.
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Overall forum rankings by Hugh in the following post in this thread.
(Thanks.) As there are such a lot of books, the league tables now stretch to more than one post, and are not updated as often as in other ranking threads.
This started after a short discussion in the 1980 group read thread - with the provisional plan to include old shortlisters and longlisters together in the rankings here. That means only one set of calculations.