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100 Days to Victory: How the Great War Was Fought and Won by Saul David — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2013
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2013
The Authors XI: A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon by Various — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2013
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2013
Blood and Beauty by Sarah Dunant — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2013
The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 by Richard Overy — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2013
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2013
Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race by Graham Farmelo — not in English Common KnowledgeScience, 2013
The Deaths by Mark Lawson — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2013
The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts by Graham Robb — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2013
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 by Rana Mitter — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2013
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2013
Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2013
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2013
Home Fires by Elizabeth Day — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2013
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2013
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2013
Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David CauteHistory, 2013
Lion Heart by Justin Cartwright — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2013
Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands by Charles Moore — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography, 2013
May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2013
O My America!: Six Women and Their Second Acts in a New World by Sara Wheeler — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2013
Olivier by Philip Ziegler — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography, 2013
One Leg Too Few by William Cook — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography, 2013
One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2013
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography, 2013
The Pike by Lucy Hughes-Hallett — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography, 2013
Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History by Catherine Merridale — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2013
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 by William Dalrymple — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2013
Serving the Reich: the struggle for the soul of physics under Hitler by Philip Ball — not in English Common KnowledgeScience, 2013
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2013
Sisterland by Curtis SittenfeldFiction, 2013
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE by Simon Schama — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2013
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark MiodownikScience, 2013
Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain by Charlotte Higgins — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2013
Unexploded by Alison MacLeod — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2013
What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees by Tony Juniper — not in English Common KnowledgeScience, 2013
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2013
Wilkie Collins: A Life of Sensation by Andrew Lycett — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography, 2013
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2013
The Architect's Apprentice by Elif Shafak — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Becoming Freud: the making of a psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips — not in English Common KnowledgeScience, 2014
Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Matthew Dennison — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography, 2014
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande — not in English Common KnowledgeScience, 2014
The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black — not in English Common KnowledgeThriller, 2014
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes — not in English Common KnowledgeThriller, 2014
The Children Act by Ian McEwan — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson — not in English Common Knowledge Biography, 2014
Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day by Carrie Gibson — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2014
The Farm by Tom Rob Smith — not in English Common KnowledgeThriller, 2014
God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England by Jessie Childs — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2014
Havel: A Life by Michael Zantovsky — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography, 2014
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson — not in English Common KnowledgeScience, 2014
The Last Asylum by Barbara Taylor — not in English Common KnowledgeScience, 2014
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah — not in English Common KnowledgeThriller, 2014
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind by Scott Stossel — not in English Common KnowledgeScience, 2014
Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography, 2014
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963 by Richard Vinen — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2014
Partisan Diary: A Woman's Life in the Italian Resistance by Ada Gobetti — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2014
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
A People's History of the French Revolution by Eric Hazan — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2014
The Red Earl: The Extraordinary Life of the 16th Earl of Huntingdon by Selina Hastings — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography, 2014
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah HarariScience, 2014
The Secret Place by Tana French — not in English Common KnowledgeThriller, 2014
The Secret World: Behind the Curtain of British Intelligence in World War II and the Cold War by Hugh Trevor-Roper — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2014
Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer by Michael Smith — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography, 2014
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert — not in English Common KnowledgeScience, 2014
Some Luck by Jane Smiley — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Someone Else's Skin by Sarah Hilary — not in English Common KnowledgeThriller, 2014
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers by Joanna Bourke — not in English Common KnowledgeScience, 2014
The Taxidermist's Daughter by Kate Mosse — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
The Three by Sarah Lotz — not in English Common KnowledgeThriller, 2014
Us by David Nicholls — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Victoria: A Life by A. N. WilsonBiography, 2014
Zeppelin Nights: London in the First World War by Jerry White — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2014
The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Adventures in human being by Gavin Francis — not in English Common KnowledgeScience books, 2015
Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World by Noel Malcolm — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2015
Agincourt (Great Battles) by Prof Anne Curry — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2015
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie — not in English Common KnowledgeScience Fiction and Fantasy, 2015
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson — not in English Common Knowledge 2015
Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis by Tim Flannery — not in English Common KnowledgeScience books, 2015
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson — not in English Common KnowledgeScience Fiction and Fantasy, 2015
The Battle of Agincourt by Anne Curry — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2015
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates — not in English Common KnowledgePolitics, 2015
Bill Oddie Unplucked by Bill Oddie — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination by Richard Mabey — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
Call Me Dave: The Unauthorised Biography of David Cameron by Michael Ashcroft — not in English Common KnowledgePolitics, 2015
Cameron at 10: The Inside Story 2010-2015 by Anthony Seldon — not in English Common KnowledgePolitics, 2015
The Cartel by Don Winslow — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime and thriller, 2015
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine — not in English Common KnowledgePolitics, 2015
Clade by James Bradley — not in English Common KnowledgeScience Fiction and Fantasy, 2015
Coastlines: The Story of Our Shore by Patrick Barkham — not in English Common KnowledgeScience books, 2015
Collecting the New Naturalists (Collins New Naturalist Library) by Tim Bernhard — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
The Crossing by Andrew Miller — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature by Nicholas B. Davies — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell — not in English Common KnowledgeCrima and thriller, 2015
Dead Joker by Anne Holt — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime and thriller, 2015
The Death House by Sarah Pinborough — not in English Common KnowledgeScience Fiction and Fantasy, 2015
Disclaimer by Renee Knight — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime and thriller, 2015
Early Warning by Jane SmileyFiction, 2015
Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson — not in English Common KnowledgeScience Fiction and Fantasy, 2015
Even Dogs in the Wild by Ian RankinCrime and thriller, 2015
Fear of Dying by Erica Jong — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
Few and far between: on the trail of Britain's rarest animals by Charlie Elder — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
Field Notes from the Edge by Paul Evans — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
The First Bad Man by Miranda July — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream by Katharine Norbury — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
Flood of Fire by Amitav GhoshFiction, 2015
Following Farage: On the Trail of the People's Army by Owen Bennett — not in English Common KnowledgePolitics, 2015
The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir by Michael Bundock — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography and Memoir, 2015
The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime and thriller, 2015
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime and thriller, 2015
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
Golden Age by Jane Smiley — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
The Green Road by Anne Enright — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography and Memoir, 2015
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
Handbook of the Mammals of the World: Monotremes and Marusupials: 5 by Don E. WilsonNature, 2015
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
Herring Tales: How the silver darlings shaped human taste and history by Donald S. Murray — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
House Guests, House Pests: A Natural History of Animals in the Home (Bloomsbury Nature Writing) by Richard Jones — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
Hush Hush by Laura Lippman — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime and thriller, 2015
In Pursuit of Butterflies: A Fifty-year Affair by Matthew Oates — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
India At War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War by Yasmin Khan — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2015
Inglorious: Conflict in the Uplands by Mark Avery — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
Inside the Nudge Unit: How Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference by David Halpern — not in English Common KnowledgePolitics, 2015
John Aubrey: my own life by Ruth Scurr — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography and Memoir, 2015
Katherine Carlyle by Rupert Thomson — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist by Niall FergusonPolitics, 2015
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2015
Lakes, Loughs and Lochs by Brian Moss — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
Life’s Greatest Secret: The Story of the Race to Crack the Genetic Code by Matthew Cobb — not in English Common KnowledgeScience books, 2015
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers — not in English Common KnowledgeScience Fiction and Fantasy, 2015
Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald — not in English Common KnowledgeScience Fiction and Fantasy, 2015
Magna Carta (Penguin Classics) by David Carpenter — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2015
The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943 by Ivan MaiskyHistory, 2015
Make Me by Lee Child — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime and thriller, 2015
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow by Charles MoorePolitics, 2015
Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime and thriller, 2015
Mislaid by Nell Zink — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy by Michael McCarthy — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
The Mulberry Bush by Charles McCarry — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime and thriller, 2015
My Struggle: Book Four by Karl Ove Knausgård — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
The News from Waterloo: The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington's Victory by Brian Cathcart — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2015
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia by Peter Pomerantsev — not in English Common KnowledgePolitics, 2015
Number 11 by Jonathan CoeFiction, 2015
On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks — not in English Common KnowledgeScience books, 2015
Open the Cage, Murphy! by Paul O'Grady — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography and Memoir, 2015
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World by Oliver Morton — not in English Common KnowledgeScience books, 2015
Pleasantville by Attica Locke — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime and thriller, 2015
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro — not in English Common KnowledgePolitics, 2015
Project Fear: How an Unlikely Alliance Left a Kingdom United but a Country Divided by Joe Pike — not in English Common KnowledgePolitics, 2015
Purity by Jonathan Franzen — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
Quicksand by Steve ToltzFiction, 2015
Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies by Peter Marren — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
Rogue Lawyer by John GrishamCrime and thriller, 2015
I Saw a Man by Owen SheersCrime and thriller, 2015
The Seven Good Years: A Memoir by Etgar Keret — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography and Memoir, 2015
The Shark and the Albatross: A Wildlife Filmmaker Reveals Why Nature Matters to Us All by John Aitchison — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
The Shut Eye by Belinda Bauer — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime and thriller, 2015
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers by Gillian Tett — not in English Common KnowledgePolitics, 2015
Sixty degrees north: around the world in search of home by Malachy Tallack — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
Slade House by David Mitchell — not in English Common KnowledgeScience Fiction and Fantasy, 2015
Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind by Anne Charnock — not in English Common KnowledgeScience Fiction and Fantasy, 2015
Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand — not in English Common KnowledgePolitics, 2015
Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells by Helen ScalesNature, 2015
Splinter the Silence by Val McDermid — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime and thriller, 2015
The story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the secret history of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography and Memoir, 2015
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
Tales from Concrete Jungles: Urban birding around the world by David Lindo — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905 by Ferdinand Mount — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2015
Threads: the delicate life of John Craske by Julia Blackburn — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography and Memoir, 2015
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories by China Miéville — not in English Common KnowledgeScience Fiction and Fantasy, 2015
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu — not in English Common Knowledge 2015
Trans: A Memoir by Juliet Jacques — not in English Common KnowledgePolitics, 2015
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War by Tim ButcherHistory, 2015
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel by Salman Rushdie — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
Undiscovered Owls: A Sound Approach Guide by Robb Magnus — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
The Vegetarian by Han Kang — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears by Thomas Dixon — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2015
What Nature Does For Britain by Tony Juniper — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? by Katrine Marçal — not in English Common KnowledgePolitics, 2015
The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography and Memoir, 2015
Year of the Fat Knight: The Falstaff Diaries by Antony Sher — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography and Memoir, 2015
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
Yorkshire Dales by John Lee — not in English Common KnowledgeNature, 2015
You Are Dead by Peter James — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime and fiction, 2015
All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class by Tim ShipmanPolitics, 2016
All That Man Is by David Szalay — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2016
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography, 2016
Autumn by Ali SmithFiction, 2016
Azanian Bridges by Nick WoodScience Fiction and Fantasy, 2016
The Bad Boys of Brexit: Tales of Mischief, Mayhem & Guerrilla Warfare in the EU Referendum Campaign by Arron Banks — not in English Common KnowledgePolitics, 2016
Barkskins by Annie ProulxFiction, 2016
Beast by Paul KingsnorthFiction, 2016
Before the Fall by Noah HawleyCrime, 2016
Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide by Charles Foster — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography, 2016
The Black Widow by Daniel Silva — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime, 2016
Black Widow by Chris Brookmyre — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime, 2016
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2016
Bone by Bone: A psychological thriller so compelling, you won't be able to put it down by Sanjida Kay — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime, 2016
The Brilliant & Forever by Kevin MacNeil — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2016
The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path To Power by Alex NunnsPolitics, 2016
Central Station by Lavie TidharScience Fiction and Fantasy, 2016
The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India by Jon Wilson — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2016
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky ChambersScience Fiction and Fantasy, 2016
Cold Earth by Ann CleevesCrime, 2016
Comrade Corbyn: A Very Unlikely Coup: How Jeremy Corbyn Stormed to the Labour Leadership by Rosa Prince — not in English Common KnowledgePolitics, 2016
Conclave by Robert HarrisCrime, 2016
A Country Road, A Tree by Jo BakerFiction, 2016
Days without End by Sebastian Barry — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2016
Dead Pretty by David MarkCrime, 2016
Death's End by Cixin LiuScience Fiction & Fantasy, 2016
East West Street by Philippe SandsHistory, 2016
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2016
Exposure by Helen DunmoreFiction, 2016
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin — not in English Common Knowledge 2016
Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949 by David CesaraniHistory, 2016
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2016
The Gradual by Christopher Priest — not in English Common KnowledgeScience Fiction and Fantasy, 2016
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2016
Hag-Seed by Margaret AtwoodFiction, 2016
Here I Am by Jonathan Safran FoerFiction, 2016
His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae Burnet — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2016
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2016
Infinite Ground by Martin MacInnesFiction, 2016
Iraq + 100: Stories from Another Iraq by Hassan Blasim — not in English Common KnowledgeScience Fiction and Fantasy, 2016
Jumpin' Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock'n'Roll Underworld by Keiron PimBiography, 2016
Kind of Blue: A Political Memoir by Ken ClarkePolitics, 2016
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBrideFiction, 2016
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography, 2016
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939 by Adrian Tinniswood — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2016
Love You Dead by Peter James — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime, 2016
Magpie Murders by Anthony HorowitzCrime, 2016
Martin Luther: renegade and prophet by Lyndal RoperBiography, 2016
Missing, Presumed by Susie SteinerCrime, 2016
Murder under the Christmas Tree: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season by Cecily Gayford — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime, 2016
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2016
My Struggle: Book Five by Karl Ove Knausgård — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2016
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha LeeScience Fiction & Fantasy, 2016
The Noise of Time by Julian BarnesFiction, 2016
Nothing On Earth by Conor O'CallaghanFiction, 2016
Nutshell by Ian McEwanFiction, 2016
Die of Shame by Mark BillinghamCrime, 2016
Out of Bounds by Val McDermidCrime, 2016
Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action by Helen MargettsPolitics, 2016
Politics: Between the Extremes by Nick Clegg — not in English Common KnowledgePolitics, 2016
The Power by Naomi AldermanFiction, 2016
The Race by Nina Allan — not in English Common KnowledgeScience Fiction and Fantasy, 2016
Rather Be the Devil by Ian RankinCrime, 2016
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography, 2016
The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2016
The Sellout by Paul Beatty — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2016
Serious Sweet by A. L. Kennedy — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2016
Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime, 2016
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2016
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho — not in English Common KnowledgeScience Fiction and Fantasy, 2016
Speaking Out: Lessons in Life and Politics by Ed Balls — not in English Common KnowledgePolitics, 2016
Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2016
Swing Time by Zadie Smith — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2016
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen — not in English Common Knowledge 2016
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War by Ian Buruma — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography, 2016
This Census-Taker by China MiévilleFiction, 2016
Thus Bad Begins by Javier MaríasFiction, 2016
Too Like the Lightning by Ada PalmerScience Fiction and Fantasy, 2016
Transit by Rachel CuskFiction, 2016
The Trespasser by Tana FrenchCrime, 2016
The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England by Elizabeth Foyster — not in English Common KnowledgeHistory, 2016
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead — not in English Common Knowledge 2016
The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece by Laura Cumming — not in English Common KnowledgeBiography, 2016
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories by Joy Williams — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2016
When the Music's Over by Peter Robinson — not in English Common KnowledgeCrime, 2016
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate SummerscaleHistory, 2016
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth WareCrime, 2016
Zero K by Don DeLilloFiction, 2016
The Story of the Jews: Belonging, 1492–1900 by Simon Schama2017