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2 The Blind Assassin
3 The Mirror & the Light
4 The Remains of the Day
5 The Colony
6 My Friends
7 Playground
8 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
9 In Ascension
10 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
11 The God of Small Things
12 Atonement
13 Life of Pi
14 Cat's Eye
15 The Handmaid's Tale
16 Flaubert's Parrot
17 The Secret Scripture
18 The Garden of Evening Mists
19 The Gift of Rain
20 Unless
21 Glory
22 Washington Black
23 Morality Play
24 The Sea, The Sea
25 Prophet Song
26 Klara and the Sun
27 Endling
28 A Passage North
29 The Narrow Road to the Deep North
30 Arthur & George
31 The Master
32 Wolf Hall
33 The Moor's Account
34 Family Matters
35 Quartet in Autumn
36 Us
37 The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
38 Lost Children Archive
39 An Artist of the Floating World
40 Possession
41 Study for Obedience
42 Spies
43 Apeirogon
44 The Testaments
45 Audition
46 The Ruby in Her Navel
47 Flashlight
48 Seascraper
49 Saturday
50 James
51 The Sweetness of Water
52 Moon Tiger
53 Bewilderment
54 Cloud Atlas
55 The Sisters Brothers
56 Never Let Me Go
57 The Sense of an Ending
58 The Welsh Girl
59 We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
60 If I Survive You
61 The Black Prince
62 The Reluctant Fundamentalist
63 The Ghost Road
64 A Bend in the River
65 Hotel du Lac
66 Mister Pip
67 The Bird of Night
68 Skios
69 All the Little Bird-Hearts
70 Normal People
71 Disgrace
72 Warlight
73 Schindler's Ark (aka Schindler's List)
74 The Trees
75 The Wall
76 Autumn
77 Quichotte
78 Netherland
79 The Marrying of Chani Kaufman
80 Bruno's Dream
81 Heat and Dust
82 The Road to Lichfield
83 On Beauty
84 The Sea
85 The Bone Clocks
86 Old God's Time
87 Oryx and Crake
88 Lincoln in the Bardo
89 Bring Up the Bodies
90 The Shadow King
91 Oscar and Lucinda
92 Milkman
93 China Room
94 How to Be Good
95 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
96 Creation Lake
97 The Moor's Last Sigh
98 In a Strange Room
99 The Stone Diaries
100 A Tale for the Time Being
101 The Underground Railroad
102 Brooklyn
103 The Story of Lucy Gault
104 Shalimar the Clown
105 Midnight's Children
106 Lanny
107 The Secret River
108 Do Not Say We Have Nothing
109 Black Swan Green
110 Stone Yard Devotional
111 The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
112 The English Patient
113 Swimming Home
114 Frankissstein
115 How Much of These Hills Is Gold
116 Small Things Like These
117 The True History of the Kelly Gang
118 Pearl
119 The House of Doors
120 Days Without End
121 Sea of Poppies
122 This Other Eden
123 Life and Times of Michael K
124 The Luminaries
125 The Overstory
126 Home Fire
127 Night Boat to Tangier
128 Empire of the Sun
129 Rites of Passage
130 C
131 The Bone People
132 Wandering Stars
133 Case Study
134 A Long Long Way
135 Booth
136 The Sige of Krishnapur
137 TransAtlantic
138 Lila
139 Universality
140 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
141 One Boat
142 Love Forms
143 The Conservationist
144 We Need New Names
145 Girl, Woman, Other
146 How to Be Both
147 Solar Bones
148 The New Wilderness
149 The Gate of Angels
150 The Mars Room
151 The Man Who Saw Everything
152 History of Wolves
153 Second Place
154 No One Is Talking About This
155 A Town Called Solace
156 An Island
157 The Gathering
158 Purple Hibiscus
159 The Inheritance of Loss
160 When We Were Orphans
161 Amsterdam
162 In a Free State
163 Oh William!
164 Clear Light of Day
165 On Canaan's Side
166 The Glass Room
167 Work Like Any Other
168 Trespass
169 The White Tiger
170 The Long Take
171 Did You Ever Have a Family
172 In the Country of Men
173 4 3 2 1
174 Brick Lane
175 This Strange Eventful History
176 Parrot and Olivier in America
177 Orbital
178 Remembering Babylon
179 Mother's Milk
180 Troubles
181 His Bloody Project
182 The Spinning Heart
183 Gifted
184 Swing Time
185 Orfeo
186 Alias Grace
187 This Mournable Body
188 The Famished Road
189 Held
190 Trust
191 The Accidental
192 Number9Dream
193 The North Water
194 From a Low and Quiet Sea
195 Last Orders
196 The Promise
197 Love and Summer
198 Theft
199 Enlightenment
200 A Spool of Blue Thread
201 The Bottle Factory Outing
202 The Blazing World
203 The Fortune Men
204 Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
205 On Chesil Beach
206 Treacle Walker
207 The Bookshop
208 Half Blood Blues
209 The Good Terrorist
210 Misinterpretation
211 In Our Mad and Furious City
212 Western Lane
213 After Sappho
214 Narcopolis
215 Elmet
216 Any Human Heart
217 Black Dogs
218 My Name Is Lucy Barton
219 Exit West
220 The Satanic Verses
221 The Sellout
222 Shuggie Bain
223 The Many
224 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
225 Redhead by the Side of the Road
226 The Lowland
227 Offshore
228 A Spell of Good Things
229 The Testament of Mary
230 The South
231 Light Perpetual
232 The Green Road
233 Sleeping on Jupiter
234 The Land in Winter
235 Burnt Sugar
236 Such a Fun Age
237 Satin Island
238 The Wake
239 How to Build a Boat
240 Snap
241 My Sister, the Serial Killer
242 Everything Under
243 The Rest of Our Lives
244 Wild Houses
245 Hot Milk
246 The Amber Spyglass
247 Reservoir 13
248 Headshot
249 The Bee Sting
250 The Water Cure
251 The Fishermen
252 The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
253 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
254 Real Life
255 The Great Circle
256 Nightcrawling
257 The Safekeep
258 Flesh
259 Carry Me Down
260 Room
261 The Old Devils
There are now only 70 books out of the 521 that nobody has ranked here (10 of them are on this year's list, so they won't be there for long!):
They are:
(shortlisted)
Figures in a Landscape
From Scenes Like These
Fire From Heaven
The Conjunction
Goshawk Squadron
The Big Chapel
The Bird of Night
The Green Equinox
Praxis
Rhine Journey
An Ice-Cream War
Constance or Solitary Practices
Silence Among the Weapons
The 27th Kingdom
Flying to Nowhere
Rates of Exchange
The Illusionist
The Lost Father
Daughters of the House
Serenity House
(longlisted:)
Dogside Story
Fairness
Half a Life
If the Invader Comes
Shamrock Tea
The Blue Tango
The Death of Vishnu
The Element of Water
The Leto Bundle
Translated Accounts
Wolfy and the Strudelbakers
Still Here
The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds & Dr Glas
Who's Sorry Now
A Distant Shore
Jazz etc.
Something Might Happen
The Light of Day
The Nick of Time
Yellow Dog
A Blade of Glass
Always the Sun
Becoming Strangers
Cherry
Cooking with Fernet Branca
Sixty Lights
The Honeymoon
The Unnumbered
This is the Country
Seven Lies
Gifted
Winnie and Wolf
Girl in a Blue Dress
The Betrayal
The Stars in the Bright Sky
Derby Day
The Last Hundred Days
Communion Town
Almost English
The Marrying of Chani Kaufman
Sabrina
Glory
Trust
The Trees
Booth
Treacle Walker
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Case Study
The Colony
Nightcrawling
Oh William!
They are:
(shortlisted)
Figures in a Landscape
From Scenes Like These
Fire From Heaven
The Conjunction
Goshawk Squadron
The Big Chapel
The Bird of Night
The Green Equinox
Praxis
Rhine Journey
An Ice-Cream War
Constance or Solitary Practices
Silence Among the Weapons
The 27th Kingdom
Flying to Nowhere
Rates of Exchange
The Illusionist
The Lost Father
Daughters of the House
Serenity House
(longlisted:)
Dogside Story
Fairness
Half a Life
If the Invader Comes
Shamrock Tea
The Blue Tango
The Death of Vishnu
The Element of Water
The Leto Bundle
Translated Accounts
Wolfy and the Strudelbakers
Still Here
The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds & Dr Glas
Who's Sorry Now
A Distant Shore
Jazz etc.
Something Might Happen
The Light of Day
The Nick of Time
Yellow Dog
A Blade of Glass
Always the Sun
Becoming Strangers
Cherry
Cooking with Fernet Branca
Sixty Lights
The Honeymoon
The Unnumbered
This is the Country
Seven Lies
Gifted
Winnie and Wolf
Girl in a Blue Dress
The Betrayal
The Stars in the Bright Sky
Derby Day
The Last Hundred Days
Communion Town
Almost English
The Marrying of Chani Kaufman
Sabrina
Glory
Trust
The Trees
Booth
Treacle Walker
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Case Study
The Colony
Nightcrawling
Oh William!

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1) Harvest
2) History of the Rain
3) The Spinning Heart
4) His Bloody Project
5) Apeirogon
6) Quarantine
7) The Remains of the Day
8) The Sense of an Ending
9) Lincoln in the Bardo
10) The Overstory
11) The Colony
12) Utz
13) Never Let Me Go
14) The Sisters Brothers
15) The Dog
16) Bewilderment
17) The Long Take
18) The Many
19) On Chesil Beach
20) Disgrace
21) When We Were Orphans
22) The Teleportation Accident
23) Satin Island
24) Did You Ever Have a Family
25) The Testament of Mary
26) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
27) Small Things Like These
28) The White Tiger
29) Trust
The books I liked:
30) Arthur & George
31) Elmet
32) The Reluctant Fundamentalist
33) Transatlantic
34) How to Be Both
35) From a Low and Quiet Sea
36) The North Water
37) A Month in the Country
38) Autumn
39) An Island
40) Reservoir 13
41) A Passage North
42) History of Wolves
43) The Trees
44) The Ghost Road
45) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
46) Washington Black
47) The Moor's Account
48) All That Man Is
49) Lanny
50) Real Life
51) How Much of These Hills is Gold
52) Love and Other Thought Experiments
53) A Case of Exploding Mangoes
54) Life of Pi
55) The Glass Room
56) A Little Life
57) Warlight
58) The Promise
59) The Sweetness of Water
60) A Town Called Solace
61) The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
The books that were just alright:
62) Redhead By the Side of the Road
63) Everything Under
64) Such a Fun Age
65) A Tale for the Time Being
66) Purple Hibiscus
67) The Green Road
68) We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
69) Normal People
70) Pigeon English
71) England, England
72) The Sellout
73) Klara and the Sun
74) Night Boat to Tangier
75) China Room
76) After Sappho
77) Case Study
The books I didn't like:
78) Lost Children Archive
79) Exit West
80) The Wall
81) The Water Cure
82) Flaubert's Parrot
83) A Spool of Blue Thread
84) The Underground Railroad
85) We Need New Names
86) In Our Mad and Furious City
87) Second Place
88) Frankissstein
89) My Sister, the Serial Killer
90) Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
91) Booth
92) Skios
93) Amsterdam
94) Swimming Home
95) Nightcrawling
96) Treacle Walker
97) Light Perpetual
The books I should have dnf'ed:
98) No One is Talking About This
99) Lila
100) The Little Stranger
101) Oh William
102) Snap
103) Swing Time
104) Eileen
105) My Name is Lucy Barton
106) To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
107) Girl, Woman, Other
108) Sabrina
109) Snowdrops

A Fine Balance
I'll Go to Bed at Noon
Empire of the Sun
Midnight's Children
A Bend in the River
Ducks, Newburyport
the Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
the Bone People
Waterland
Cat's Eye
Never Let Me Go
Atonement
the Reluctant Fundamentalist
the North Water
the Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Shuggie Bain
A Handmaid's Tale
the Testaments
the Line of Beauty
Fingersmith
Oryx and Crake
the Shadow King
A Tale for the Time Being
the God of Small Things
Bring Up the Bodies
Wolf Hall
Harvest
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Milkman
the Nice and the Good
Troubles
the Fortune Men
Purple Hibiscus
the Year of the Runaways
the Lives of Others
China Room
Days Without End
We Need New Names
the Black Prince
the Amber Spyglass
Paradise
the English Patient
Lost Children Archive
the Trees
Elmet
the Underground Railroad
the New Wilderness
the Water Cure
the Satanic Verses
the Blind Assassin
Reef
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Life of Pi
the Luminaries
Exit West
Washington Black
Klara and the Sun
Trust
the Siege of Krishnapur
In Our Mad and Furious City
Second Place
Child 44
Burnt Sugar
Such a Fun Age
Swing Time
Lanny
Normal People
History of Wolves
When We Were Orphans
Night Boat to Tangier
Home Fire
Alias Grace
4 3 2 1
Disgrace
the Blazing World
Shame
the Folding Star
Narcopolis
the Testament of Mary
the Lowland
Animal's People
the Gathering
In a Free State
Five Star Billionaire
the Curious Incident...
Notes on a Scandal
Reservoir 13
An Artist of the Floating World
All That Man Is
A Disaffection
Autumn
My Name is Lucy Barton
Snap
the Many
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Solar Bones
This Mournable Body
Number9Dream
Vernon God Little
Oscar and Lucinda
Lincoln in the Bardo
the Butcher Boy
the Mars Room
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Possession
Eileen
Treacle Walker
No One Is Talking About This
the Conversationalist
Apparently I like long books. The bottom is pretty much a tie. It's also interesting how some years are clustered together.
Books mentioned in this topic
Such a Long Journey (other topics)A Spool of Blue Thread (other topics)
Trespass (other topics)
The Bottle Factory Outing (other topics)
The Good Doctor (other topics)
More...
2. Never Let Me Go
3. Ducks, Newburyport
4. Elmet
5. Lanny
6. Normal People
7. A Tale for the Time Being
8. The North Water
9. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
10. A Little Life
11. The Many
12. Eileen
13. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
14. Room
15. Washington Black
16. 4 3 2 1
17. The Fishermen
18. Oryx and Crake
19. The Amber Spyglass
20. His Bloody Project
21. The Mars Room
22. Did You Ever Have a Family?
23. Atonement
24. Autumn
25. All That Man Is
26. The Underground Railroad