Reading
2012
- Designing with Web Standards - Jeffrey Zeldman and Ethan Marcotte
- Behind the Green Curtain - T. Ryle Dwyer
2011
- Red Plenty - Francis Spufford
2010
- The Honourable Schoolboy - John le Carré
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John le Carré
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John le Carré
- The Theory of Poker - David Sklansky
- A Murder of Quality - John le Carré
- Call for the Dead - John le Carré
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- For Richer, for Poorer - Victoria Coren
- Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
- Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
- Stasiland - Anna Funder
- The Coronation - Boris Akunin
- Hitler - 1936-1945 : Nemesis - Ian Kershaw
2009
- A Small Town in Germany - John Le Carré
- The Code Book - Simon Singh
- Clockers - Richard Price
- Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar - Simon Sebag Montefiore
- The State Counsellor - Boris Akunin
- Inverting the Pyramid - Jonathan Wilson
- The Corner - David Simon and Ed Burns
- Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
- Dexter By Design - Jeff Lindsay
- Hitler 1889-1936 : Hubris - Ian Kershaw
- Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
- Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
- Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth - Gitta Sereny
- Special Assignments - Boris Akunin
- The Princess Bride - William Goldman
- Rome Burning - Sophia McDougall
- Romanitas - Sophia McDougall
2008
- Young Stalin - Simon Sebag Montefiore
- The Beautiful Game? - David Conn
- Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks
- Generation Kill - Evan Wright
- The Second Objective - Mark Frost
- Behind the Curtain - Jonathan Wilson
- A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett
- Jingo - Terry Pratchett
- Kind of Blue - Ashley Kahn
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré
- Homeward Bound - Harry Turtledove
- Colonisation: Aftershocks - Harry Turtledove
- Colonisation: Down to Earth - Harry Turtledove
- Colonisation: Second Contact - Harry Turtledove
- To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- World War: Striking the Balance - Harry Turtledove
- World War: Upsetting the Balance - Harry Turtledove
- World War: Tilting the Balance - Harry Turtledove
- The Spanish Civil War - Antony Beevor
- The Death of Achilles - Boris Akunin
- World War: In the Balance - Harry Turtledove
- Murder on the Leviathan - Boris Akunin
- Garrincha - Ruy Castro
- Dexter In The Dark - Jeff Lindsay
- The Confusion - Neal Stephenson
- Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
2007
- Turkish Gambit - Boris Akunin
- A Cold Case - Philip Gourevitch
- More Tales of the Black Widowers - Isaac Asimov
- Life and Fate - Vasily Grossman
- V for Vendetta - Alan Moore and David Lloyd
- A Writer at War - Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova
- The New Journalism - Tom Wolfe and Edward Warren Johnson
- The Algebraist - Iain M. Banks
- Homicide - David Simon
- Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
- Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
- Imperium - Robert Harris
- From Hell - Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
- Beginning Operations - James White
- The Complete Maus - Art Spiegelman
- Groucho, Harpo, Chico and sometimes Zeppo - Joe Adamson
- Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
- Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
- The Collapse of the Third Republic - William L. Shirer
- Primary Colors - Anonymous
- Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
- Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail - Hunter S. Thompson
- Red Son - Mark Millar, Dave Johnson, and Kilian Plunkett
- Rising '44 - Norman Davies
- Pure Drivel - Steve Martin
- Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Shopgirl - Steve Martin
- Peacemakers - Margaret MacMillan
- The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
- Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris
2006
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carré
- My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes - Gary Imlach
- The Hannibal Lecter Omnibus - Thomas Harris
- The Winter Queen - Boris Akunin
- The Real Cruel Sea - Richard Woodman
- Three Corvettes - Nicholas Monsarrat
- Ambulance Ship - Jame White
- Homicide - David Simon
- Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth - Gitta Sereny
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
- Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Future's Past - James White
- The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
- The Godfather - Mario Puzo
- Make Love! the Bruce Campbell Way - Bruce Campbell
2005
- Christmas at Stalingrad - Antony Beevor
- Romanitas - Sophia McDougall
- 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow - Adam Zamoyski
- Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
- Star Trek: The Lost Years - J.M. Dillard
- The Last Days of Hitler - H.R. Trevor-Roper
- Nightfall One - Isaac Asimov
- The Fringes of Power - John Colville
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- The Prisoner's Dilemma - Jonathan Blum and Rupert Booth
- Red Prophet - Orson Scott Card
- Colonisation: Aftershocks - Harry Turtledove
- Seventh Son - Orson Scott Card
- Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
- Colonisation: Down to Earth - Harry Turtledove
- Colonisation: Second Contact - Harry Turtledove
- If Chins Could Kill - Bruce Campbell
- Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar - Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps - Anne Applebaum
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
2004
- The Cruel Sea - Nicholas Monsarrat
- Rubicon - Tom Holland
- American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
- Just a Geek - Wil Wheaton
- The Pleasure of My Company - Steve Martin
- Defying Hitler: A Memoir - Sebastian Haffner
- Gullible's Travels - Cash Peters
- Homicide - David Simon
- World War: Striking the Balance - Harry Turtledove
- World War: Upsetting the Balance - Harry Turtledove
- World War: Tilting the Balance - Harry Turtledove
- World War: In the Balance - Harry Turtledove
- Building Accessible Websites - Joe Clark
- Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
- Pompeii - Robert Harris
- Paper Lion - George Plimpton
- The Hannibal Lecter Omnibus - Thomas Harris
- Perdido Street Station - China Miévelle
- Dancing Barefoot - Wil Wheaton
- Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
- Red Victory - W. Bruce Lincoln
- Designing with Web Standards - Jeffrey Zeldman
- The List of 7 - Mark Frost
2003
- On the Beach - Nevil Shute
- Homicide - David Simon
- The Kenneth Williams Diaries -
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- Berlin : The Downfall 1945 - Antony Beevor
- Archangel - Robert Harris