Favourite Books

All-Time Favourites:

• Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman 
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers 
• 11.22.63 by Stephen King

Best of 2016:

• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
• Sofia Khan is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik
• The Stand by Stephen King
• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

Best of 2015

• Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
• Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman
• The Elements of Eloquence by Mark Forsyth
• Murder Most Unladylike and Arsenic for Tea by Robin Stevens
• Geek Girl by Holly Smale
• White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
• The Year I Met You by Cecelia Ahern
• The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katerina Bivald
• Cross Stitch (or Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon
• Lock In by John Scalzi
• The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett
• The Accidental by Ali Smith
• The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan

Best of 2014

• 11.22.63 by Stephen King
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• NOS4R2 by Joe Hill
• The Charioteer by Mary Renault
• The Explorer by James Smythe
• The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
• Terra by Mitch Benn
• The Silkworm by "Robert Galbraith"
• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
• Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloane
• Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
• It and The Shining by Stephen King
• Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• The Girl With All The Gifts by M. R. Carey

Best of 2013

• Redshirts by John Scalzi
• Tell The Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
• The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• The Ocean At the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
• The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
• The Fictional Man by Al Ewing
• Watchmen by Alan Moore

Best of 2012

• Sandman series by Neil Gaiman
• Sherlock Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin
• The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
• Perfume by Patrick Suskind
• Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Best of 2011

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Affinity and Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
• When God Was A Rabbit by Sarah Winman
• My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece by Annette Pitcher
• Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Best of 2010

• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson