| 1 | The Night Watch | Sarah Walters | May 2019 | 8.9 |
| 2= | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | Sep 2007 | 8.86 |
| 2= | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Feb 2012 | 8.86 |
| 4 | Girl, Woman, Other | Bernardine Evaristo | Nov 2019 | 8.75 |
| 5 | Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Dec 2017 | 8.67 |
| 6 | The Nickel Boys | Elwood Curtis | Sept 2021 | 8.66 |
| 7 | The Handmaid's Tale | Margret Atwood | Jun 2011 | 8.64 |
| 8= | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | Jun 2012 | 8.64 |
| 8= | The Bass Rock | Evie Wyld | Jun 2021 | 8.6 |
| 10 | Kindred | Octavia E Butler | Mar 2022 | 8.59 |
| 11= | Stoner | John Edward Williams | Jun 2015 | 8.42 |
| 11= | The Green Mile | Stephen King | Feb 2021 | 8.42 |
| 13 | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | John Dee | May 2021 | 8.4 |
| 14 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | Mar 2017 | 8.33 |
| 15 | East West Street | Philippe Sands | Oct 2017 | 8.31 |
| 16= | The Reader | Bernhard Schlink | Mar 2007 | 8.3 |
| 16= | If this is a Man / The Truce | Primo Levi | Jan 2009 | 8.3 |
| 16= | H is for Hawk | Helen Macdonald | Oct 2021 | 8.3 |
| 19 | A Visit From the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan | Jul 2017 | 8.29 |
| 20= | 11.22.63 | Stephen King | Jul 2014 | 8.25 |
| 20= | Giovannis Room | James Baldwin | Jul 2021 | 8.25 |
| 20= | The Power | Naomi Alderman | Feb 2019 | 8.25 |
| 0 | James | Percival Everett | Nov 2022 | 8.22 |
| 23= | A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | Nov 2006 | 8.2 |
| 23= | The Bloody Chamber | Angela Carter | Jul 2012 | 8.2 |
| 25 | Small Things Like These | Claire Keegan | Oct 2024 | 8.19 |
| 26 | The first Fifteen Lives of Harry August | Catherine Webb | Oct 2020 | 8.13 |
| 27 | My Cousin Rachel | Daphne du Maurier | Nov 2023 | 8.11 |
| 28 | The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint | Brady Udall | Feb 2010 | 8.07 |
| 29 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | Nov 2020 | 8.06 |
| 30 | Piranisi | Susanna Clarke | Apr 2024 | 8.04 |
| 31= | All the Light we Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | Jan 2016 | 8 |
| 31= | The Sisters Brothers | Patrick deWitt | Nov 2016 | 8 |
| 31= | Alone Together | Sherry Turkle | Jan 2018 | 8 |
| 31= | Misery | Stephen King | Feb 2018 | 8 |
| 31= | The Silence of the Girls | Pat Barker | Oct 2019 | 8 |
| 31= | Ordinary Grace | William Kent Krueger | Jun 2020 | 8 |
| 31= | The Book of Night Women | Marlon James | Jan 2024 | 8 |
| 38 | Conversations with Friends | Sally Rooney | Mar 2019 | 7.94 |
| 39= | The Help | Kathryn Stockett | Oct 2012 | 7.93 |
| 39= | The Gallows Pole | Benjamin Myers | Feb 2023 | 7,93 |
| 39= | Elizabeth is Missing | Emma Healey | Sep 2015 | 7.93 |
| 42= | The Little Stranger | Sarah Waters | Mar 2011 | 7.91 |
| 42= | Wonder | R. J. Palacio | Apr 2016 | 7.91 |
| 44 | An American Marriage | Tayari Jones | Jul 2019 | 7.88 |
| 45 | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | Aug 2009 | 7.87 |
| 46 | The Girl with the Louding Voice | Abi Dare | July 2022 | 7.86 |
| 0 | A Kestral for a Knave | Barry Hines | Feb 2025 | 7.86 |
| 47 | The Go-Between | L. P. Hartley | Nov 2009 | 7.85 |
| 48 | Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | Jun 2008 | 7.84 |
| 49 | The Aartian | Andy Weir | Oct 2014 | 7.83 |
| 50= | Perfume | Patrick Süskind | Jan 2007 | 7.8 |
| 50= | The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri | Nov 2021 | 7.8 |
| 52 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | Oct 2009 | 7.79 |
| 53= | Notes on a Scandal | Zoe Heller | Aug 2007 | 7.77 |
| 53= | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver | Nov 2007 | 7.77 |
| 55 | Instructions for a Heatwave | Maggie O'Farrell | Mar 2014 | 7.75 |
| 56 | A Million Little Pieces | James Frey | Aug 2008 | 7.73 |
| 57 | Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | Aug 2006 | 7.72 |
| 0 | Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead | Olga Tokarczuk | April 2025 | 7.69 |
| 58 | The Song of Achillies | Madeline Miller | Aug 2023 | 7.65 |
| 59 | The Road | Cormac McCarthy | Sep 2012 | 7.63 |
| 60= | Under the Skin | Michel Faber | Jan 2015 | 7.6 |
| 60= | The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle | Stuart Turton | Sep 2019 | 7.6 |
| 60= | Mayflies | Andrew O'Hagan | Feb 2022 | 7.6 |
| 63= | Reservoir 13 | Jon McGregor | Sep 2018 | 7.57 |
| 63= | Wakenhyrst | Michelle Paver | Jan 2020 | 7.57 |
| 63= | Let the Great World Spin | Colum McCann | May 2020 | 7.57 |
| 66 | Tamar | Mal Peet | Jun 2013 | 7.56 |
| 0 | On the Calculation of Volume | Solvej Balle | Oct 2025 | 7.54 |
| 67 | Klara & the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro | Jan 2022 | 7.55 |
| 68= | The Psychopath Test | Jon Ronson | Feb 2015 | 7.53 |
| 68= | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Mohsin Hamid | Feb 2017 | 7.53 |
| 70= | In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | Sep 2008 | 7.5 |
| 70= | Essays | George Orwell | Jan 2013 | 7.5 |
| 72 | Five rivers Met on a Wooded Plain | Barney Norris | Jul 2018 | 7.46 |
| 73 | Pies & Prejudice | Stuart Mconie | May 2012 | 7.44 |
| 74 | The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | May 2016 | 7.43 |
| 75= | The Leopard | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | Sep 2009 | 7.42 |
| 75= | Poor Things | Alasdair Gray | Feb 2024 | 7.42 |
| 77 | Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | Feb 2007 | 7.4 |
| 78= | The Wrong Boy | Willy Russell | Mar 2009 | 7.38 |
| 78= | Boxer, Beetle | Ned Beauman | Jan 2012 | 7.38 |
| 78= | Life After Life | Kate Atkinson | Sep 2013 | 7.38 |
| 78= | Moon Palace | Paul Auster | Jul 2024 | 7.38 |
| 82 | Stuart - a Life Backwards | Alexander Masters | Aug 2010 | 7.36 |
| 83 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Mar 2008 | 7.33 |
| 0 | Death and the Penguin | Andrey Kurkov | Jul 2024 | 7.3 |
| 84= | A kind of Intimacy | Jenn Ashworth | Jun 2010 | 7.25 |
| 84= | The House of Sleep | Jonathan Coe | Oct 2010 | 7.25 |
| 84= | The Heart's Invisible Furies | John Boyne | Aug 2020 | 7.25 |
| 87 | A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman | Dec 2018 | 7.23 |
| 88 | The Barrytown Trilogy/The Van | Roddy Doyle | Jun 2009 | 7.22 |
| 89 | The Secret History | Donna Tartt | Mar 2010 | 7.18 |
| 90 | Joan is Okay | Weike Wang | May 2023 | 7.16 |
| 91 | Midwinter Break | Bernard MacLaverty | Dec 2020 | 7.15 |
| 92 | The Examined Life | Stephen Grosz | Apr 2014 | 7.14 |
| 93= | The Outsider | Albert Camus | May 2007 | 7.13 |
| 93= | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | Apr 2017 | 7.13 |
| 95 | All the Birds, Singing | Evie Wyld | Aug 2014 | 7.1 |
| 96 | The Light Between Cceans | M.L. Stedman | Jun 2017 | 7.09 |
| 97 | Hungry, the Stars, and Everything | Emma Jane Unsworth | Sep 2011 | 7.06 |
| 98 | Saturday | Sebastian Faulks | May 2018 | 7.05 |
| 99= | A Little History of the World | Ernst Gombrich | Nov 2012 | 7 |
| 99= | Maggie & Me | Damian Barr | May 2014 | 7 |
| 99= | Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout | Oct 2023 | 7 |
| 99= | The Miniaturist | Jessie Burton | Jul 2015 | 7 |
| 99= | Gatekeeper | 0 | Mar 2016 | 7 |
| 99= | A Secret Sisterhood | Emily Midorikawa | Aug 2018 | 7 |
| 99= | The Three Daughters of Eve | Elif Shafak | Feb 2020 | 7 |
| 99= | In the Midst of Winter | Isabel Allende | Jan 2021 | 7 |
| 107= | The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Jan 2019 | 6.92 |
| 107= | To Throw Away Unopened | Viv Albertine | Mar 2020 | 6.92 |
| 109 | Lullaby | Leïla Slimani | Apr 2018 | 6.88 |
| 110 | Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman | Jun 2022 | 6.87 |
| 111= | 26a | Diana Evans | May 2006 | 6.86 |
| 111= | Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi | Jun 2019 | 6.86 |
| 113 | The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula Le Guinn | Apr 2021 | 6.85 |
| 114 | Child 44 | Tom Rob Smith | Apr 2012 | 6.82 |
| 0 | You Are Here | David Nicholls | Sep 2025 | 6.82 |
| 115= | The Fortress of Solitude | Jonathan Leman | Aug 2017 | 6.8 |
| 115= | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Bronte | Sept 2022 | 6.8 |
| 115= | The House at the End of Needless Street | Catriona Ward | Oct 2022 | 6.8 |
| 118= | Buddha Da | Anne Donovan | Sep 2006 | 6.79 |
| 118= | The Life of Pi | Yann Martel | Jan 2008 | 6.78 |
| 118= | One Big Damn Puzzler | John Harding | Nov 2008 | 6.78 |
| 118= | Hotel World | Ali Smith | Nov 2018 | 6.78 |
| 122= | The Suspicions of Mr Whicher | Kate Summerscale | Oct 2010 | 6.75 |
| 122= | The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | Aug 2011 | 6.75 |
| 122= | The Hand that First Held Mine | Maggie O’Farrell | Mar 2023 | 6.75 |
| 122= | The Housekeeper and the Professor | Yōko Ogawa | Apr 2015 | 6.75 |
| 126 | Alone in Berlin | Hans Fallada | Jul 2011 | 6.71 |
| 127 | Swallows and Amazons | Arthur Ransome | Aug 2016 | 6.7 |
| 128= | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | Apr 2008 | 6.69 |
| 128= | Sell us the Rope | Stephen May | May 2022 | 6.69 |
| 130 | Babel | RF Kuang | Jun 2024 | 6.68 |
| 131 | The Wasp Factory | Iain M Banks | Nov 2010 | 6.67 |
| 132 | American Pastoral | Philip Milton Roth | Apr 2009 | 6.63 |
| 133 | The Many-ColouredLland | Julian May | Jul 2007 | 6.6 |
| 134= | A Perfectly Good Man | Patric Gayle | Mar 2013 | 6.55 |
| 134= | Fellside | Mike Carey | Dec 2016 | 6.55 |
| 136 | House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | Jul 2016 | 6.5 |
| 137 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | Feb 2009 | 6.46 |
| 138 | Pigeon English | Sstephen Kelman | Mar 2012 | 6.45 |
| 139 | The Name of the Rose | 0 | May 2008 | 6.44 |
| 140= | The Girl Who Saved the King of Wweden | 0 | Jun 2014 | 6.4 |
| 140= | My Autobiography | 0 | Nov 2017 | 6.4 |
| 142 | Timolean Vieta Come Home | 0 | Jul 2010 | 6.39 |
| 143= | Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen | Jun 2006 | 6.38 |
| 143= | Contempt | 0 | May 2010 | 6.38 |
| 143= | N-W | Zadie Smith | Oct 2013 | 6.38 |
| 146 | Shrines of Gaiety | Kate Atkinson | | 6.3 |
| 147 | The Truth About Celia | 0 | Jul 2020 | 6.25 |
| 148 | Brideshead Revisited | 0 | Oct 2008 | 6.24 |
| 149 | Leave the World Behind | 0 | Apr 2022 | 6.21 |
| 150 | The Hundred Foot Journey | 0 | Feb 2014 | 6.17 |
| 152 | Slaughterhouse 5 | 0 | Oct 2007 | 6.14 |
| 153 | The Sealwoman's Gift | 0 | Jan 2023 | 6.11 |
| 154 | If on a Winter's Night a Traveller | Italo Calvino | Feb 2011 | 6.1 |
| 155 | Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife | Sam Savage | Jan 2011 | 6.07 |
| 155 | Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage | Alice Munro | Nov 2013 | 6.07 |
| 157 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | Jul 2009 | 6.05 |
| 158 | Generation X | Douglas Coupland | Apr 2011 | 6 |
| 158 | Paradise | Abdulrazak Gurnah | May 2011 | 6 |
| 158 | The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid | Bill Bryson | Jul 2013 | 6 |
| 158 | Augustus | John Edward Williams | Nov 2015 | 6 |
| 158 | The Dinner | Herman Koch | Apr 2019 | 6 |
| 158 | Strangers on a Train | Patricia Highsmith | Aug 2019 | 6 |
| 164 | The Haunting of Hill House | Susan Hill | May 2015 | 5.95 |
| 165 | The New York Trilogy | Paul Auster | Mar 2018 | 5.94 |
| 166= | Panic | Lauren Oliver | Jul 2006 | 5.92 |
| 166= | Northern Lights | Philip Pullman | Apr 2007 | 5.92 |
| 166= | The Guilty One | Lisa Ballantyne | Feb 2013 | 5.92 |
| 169 | Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Toshikau Kawaguchi | Jun 2023 | 5.9 |
| 170 | A Head Full of Ghosts | Paul G. Tremblay | Sept 2020 | 5.86 |
| 171 | Cup of Gold | John Steinbeck | Aug 2024 | 5.85 |
| 172 | Wandering Souls | Ceceila Pin | May 2024 | 5.79 |
| 173= | A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | Oct 2016 | 5.75 |
| 173= | ExtremelyLloud & Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer | Jan 2017 | 5.75 |
| 175 | To the lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | Oct 2006 | 5.7 |
| 176 | Into the wild | Jon Krakauer | Apr 2010 | 5.67 |
| 177 | The secret mother | Shalini Boland | Oct 2015 | 5.64 |
| 178= | Kalooki nights | Howard Jacobson | Aug 2013 | 5.6 |
| 178= | Priestdaddy | Patricia Lockwood | Apr 2020 | 5.6 |
| 180 | Our kid | Billy Hopkins | Feb 2008 | 5.56 |
| 181= | The bridge | Iain Banks | Apr 2013 | 5.5 |
| 181= | The map of love | Ahdaf Soueif | Sep 2016 | 5.5 |
| 183 | The body in the library | Agatha Christie | May 2017 | 5.36 |
| 184 | The secret agent | Joseph Conrad | Jan 2014 | 5.33 |
| 185 | The Bookseller of Kabul | Åsne Seierstad | Apr 2023 | 5.27 |
| 186 | My name is red | Orhan Pamuk | Sep 2010 | 5.25 |
| 187 | The good soldier | Ford Madox Ford | Jun 2016 | 5.2 |
| 188 | The other hand | Chris Cleave | Jan 2010 | 5.13 |
| 189 | The riders | Tim Winton | Jul 2008 | 5.08 |
| 190= | Peaces | Helen Oyeyemi | Aug 2022 | 5 |
| 190= | Running with scissors | Augusten Burroughs | Jun 2007 | 5 |
| 190= | The private joys of Nenna Moloney | Okechukwu Nzelu | Oct 2024 | 5 |
| 190= | Ablutions | Patrick deWitt | Sep 2017 | 5 |
| 190= | Straight White Man | John NIven | Jan 2025 | 5 |
| 195 | The mind's eye | Oliver Sacks | Jun 2018 | 4.89 |
| 196 | The truth about these strange times | Adam Foulds | May 2013 | 4.86 |
| 197 | The loney | Andrew Michael Hurley | Jan 2016 | 4.85 |
| 198= | Manchester, england | Dave Haslam | Sep 2014 | 4.83 |
| 198= | The crying of lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon | Aug 2015 | 4.83 |
| 199 | The way inn | Will Wiles | Mar 2015 | 4.82 |
| 200 | A vicar, crucified | Simon Parke | Nov 2014 | 4.73 |
| 201 | You were gone | Tim Weaver | Oct 2018 | 4.58 |
| 202 | The promise of happiness | Justin Cartwright | Mar 2024 | 4.5 |
| 203 | One for Sorrow | Helen Fields | Jul 2023 | 4.15 |
| 204 | The full montezuma | Peter Moore | May 2009 | 3.88 |
| 205 | The man who was thursday | G. K. Chesterton | Nov 2011 | 3.61 |
| 206 | Guns, germs and steel | Jared Diamond | Aug 2012 | 3.33 |