| 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 |
| 23 | James | Percival Everett | Nov 2022 | 8.22 |
| 24= | A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | Nov 2006 | 8.2 |
| 24= | The Bloody Chamber | Angela Carter | Jul 2012 | 8.2 |
| 26 | Small Things Like These | Claire Keegan | Oct 2024 | 8.19 |
| 27 | The first Fifteen Lives of Harry August | Catherine Webb | Oct 2020 | 8.13 |
| 28 | My Cousin Rachel | Daphne du Maurier | Nov 2023 | 8.11 |
| 29 | The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint | Brady Udall | Feb 2010 | 8.07 |
| 30 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | Nov 2020 | 8.06 |
| 31 | Piranisi | Susanna Clarke | Apr 2024 | 8.04 |
| 32= | All the Light we Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | Jan 2016 | 8 |
| 32= | The Sisters Brothers | Patrick deWitt | Nov 2016 | 8 |
| 32= | Alone Together | Sherry Turkle | Jan 2018 | 8 |
| 32= | Misery | Stephen King | Feb 2018 | 8 |
| 32= | The Silence of the Girls | Pat Barker | Oct 2019 | 8 |
| 32= | Ordinary Grace | William Kent Krueger | Jun 2020 | 8 |
| 32= | The Book of Night Women | Marlon James | Jan 2024 | 8 |
| 39 | Conversations with Friends | Sally Rooney | Mar 2019 | 7.94 |
| 40= | The Help | Kathryn Stockett | Oct 2012 | 7.93 |
| 40= | The Gallows Pole | Benjamin Myers | Feb 2023 | 7,93 |
| 40= | Elizabeth is Missing | Emma Healey | Sep 2015 | 7.93 |
| 43= | The Little Stranger | Sarah Waters | Mar 2011 | 7.91 |
| 43= | Wonder | R. J. Palacio | Apr 2016 | 7.91 |
| 45 | An American Marriage | Tayari Jones | Jul 2019 | 7.88 |
| 46 | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | Aug 2009 | 7.87 |
| 47= | The Girl with the Louding Voice | Abi Dare | July 2022 | 7.86 |
| 47= | A Kestral for a Knave | Barry Hines | Feb 2025 | 7.86 |
| 49 | The Go-Between | L. P. Hartley | Nov 2009 | 7.85 |
| 50 | Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | Jun 2008 | 7.84 |
| 51 | The Aartian | Andy Weir | Oct 2014 | 7.83 |
| 52= | Perfume | Patrick Süskind | Jan 2007 | 7.8 |
| 52= | The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri | Nov 2021 | 7.8 |
| 54 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | Oct 2009 | 7.79 |
| 55= | Notes on a Scandal | Zoe Heller | Aug 2007 | 7.77 |
| 55= | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver | Nov 2007 | 7.77 |
| 57 | Instructions for a Heatwave | Maggie O'Farrell | Mar 2014 | 7.75 |
| 58 | A Million Little Pieces | James Frey | Aug 2008 | 7.73 |
| 59 | Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | Aug 2006 | 7.72 |
| 60 | Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead | Olga Tokarczuk | April 2025 | 7.69 |
| 61 | The Song of Achillies | Madeline Miller | Aug 2023 | 7.65 |
| 62 | The Road | Cormac McCarthy | Sep 2012 | 7.63 |
| 63= | Under the Skin | Michel Faber | Jan 2015 | 7.6 |
| 63= | The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle | Stuart Turton | Sep 2019 | 7.6 |
| 63- | Mayflies | Andrew O'Hagan | Feb 2022 | 7.6 |
| 66= | Reservoir 13 | Jon McGregor | Sep 2018 | 7.57 |
| 66= | Wakenhyrst | Michelle Paver | Jan 2020 | 7.57 |
| 66= | Let the Great World Spin | Colum McCann | May 2020 | 7.57 |
| 69 | Tamar | Mal Peet | Jun 2013 | 7.56 |
| 70 | On the Calculation of Volume | Solvej Balle | Oct 2025 | 7.54 |
| 71 | Klara & the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro | Jan 2022 | 7.55 |
| 72= | The Psychopath Test | Jon Ronson | Feb 2015 | 7.53 |
| 72= | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Mohsin Hamid | Feb 2017 | 7.53 |
| 74= | In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | Sep 2008 | 7.5 |
| 74= | Essays | George Orwell | Jan 2013 | 7.5 |
| 76 | Five rivers Met on a Wooded Plain | Barney Norris | Jul 2018 | 7.46 |
| 77 | Pies & Prejudice | Stuart Mconie | May 2012 | 7.44 |
| 78 | The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | May 2016 | 7.43 |
| 79= | The Leopard | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | Sep 2009 | 7.42 |
| 79= | Poor Things | Alasdair Gray | Feb 2024 | 7.42 |
| 81 | Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | Feb 2007 | 7.4 |
| 82= | The Wrong Boy | Willy Russell | Mar 2009 | 7.38 |
| 82= | Boxer, Beetle | Ned Beauman | Jan 2012 | 7.38 |
| 82= | Life After Life | Kate Atkinson | Sep 2013 | 7.38 |
| 82= | Moon Palace | Paul Auster | Jul 2024 | 7.38 |
| 86 | Stuart - a Life Backwards | Alexander Masters | Aug 2010 | 7.36 |
| 87 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Mar 2008 | 7.33 |
| 88 | Death and the Penguin | Andrey Kurkov | Jul 2024 | 7.3 |
| 89= | A kind of Intimacy | Jenn Ashworth | Jun 2010 | 7.25 |
| 89= | The House of Sleep | Jonathan Coe | Oct 2010 | 7.25 |
| 89= | The Heart's Invisible Furies | John Boyne | Aug 2020 | 7.25 |
| 92 | A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman | Dec 2018 | 7.23 |
| 93 | The Barrytown Trilogy/The Van | Roddy Doyle | Jun 2009 | 7.22 |
| 94 | The Secret History | Donna Tartt | Mar 2010 | 7.18 |
| 95 | Joan is Okay | Weike Wang | May 2023 | 7.16 |
| 96 | Midwinter Break | Bernard MacLaverty | Dec 2020 | 7.15 |
| 97 | The Examined Life | Stephen Grosz | Apr 2014 | 7.14 |
| 98= | The Outsider | Albert Camus | May 2007 | 7.13 |
| 98= | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | Apr 2017 | 7.13 |
| 100 | All the Birds, Singing | Evie Wyld | Aug 2014 | 7.1 |
| 101 | The Light Between Cceans | M.L. Stedman | Jun 2017 | 7.09 |
| 102 | Hungry, the Stars, and Everything | Emma Jane Unsworth | Sep 2011 | 7.06 |
| 103 | Saturday | Sebastian Faulks | May 2018 | 7.05 |
| 104= | A Little History of the World | Ernst Gombrich | Nov 2012 | 7 |
| 104= | Maggie & Me | Damian Barr | May 2014 | 7 |
| 104= | Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout | Oct 2023 | 7 |
| 104= | The Miniaturist | Jessie Burton | Jul 2015 | 7 |
| 104= | Gatekeeper | 0 | Mar 2016 | 7 |
| 104= | A Secret Sisterhood | Emily Midorikawa | Aug 2018 | 7 |
| 104= | The Three Daughters of Eve | Elif Shafak | Feb 2020 | 7 |
| 104= | In the Midst of Winter | Isabel Allende | Jan 2021 | 7 |
| 112= | The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Jan 2019 | 6.92 |
| 112= | To Throw Away Unopened | Viv Albertine | Mar 2020 | 6.92 |
| 114 | Lullaby | Leïla Slimani | Apr 2018 | 6.88 |
| 115 | Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman | Jun 2022 | 6.87 |
| 116= | 26a | Diana Evans | May 2006 | 6.86 |
| 116= | Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi | Jun 2019 | 6.86 |
| 118 | The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula Le Guinn | Apr 2021 | 6.85 |
| 119 | Child 44 | Tom Rob Smith | Apr 2012 | 6.82 |
| 120 | You Are Here | David Nicholls | Sep 2025 | 6.82 |
| 121= | The Fortress of Solitude | Jonathan Leman | Aug 2017 | 6.8 |
| 121= | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Bronte | Sept 2022 | 6.8 |
| 121= | The House at the End of Needless Street | Catriona Ward | Oct 2022 | 6.8 |
| 124 | Buddha Da | Anne Donovan | Sep 2006 | 6.79 |
| 125= | The Life of Pi | Yann Martel | Jan 2008 | 6.78 |
| 125= | One Big Damn Puzzler | John Harding | Nov 2008 | 6.78 |
| 125= | Hotel World | Ali Smith | Nov 2018 | 6.78 |
| 128= | The Suspicions of Mr Whicher | Kate Summerscale | Oct 2010 | 6.75 |
| 128= | The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | Aug 2011 | 6.75 |
| 128= | The Hand that First Held Mine | Maggie O’Farrell | Mar 2023 | 6.75 |
| 128= | The Housekeeper and the Professor | Yōko Ogawa | Apr 2015 | 6.75 |
| 132 | Alone in Berlin | Hans Fallada | Jul 2011 | 6.71 |
| 133 | Swallows and Amazons | Arthur Ransome | Aug 2016 | 6.7 |
| 134= | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | Apr 2008 | 6.69 |
| 134= | Sell us the Rope | Stephen May | May 2022 | 6.69 |
| 134= | Babel | RF Kuang | Jun 2024 | 6.68 |
| 137 | The Wasp Factory | Iain M Banks | Nov 2010 | 6.67 |
| 138 | American Pastoral | Philip Milton Roth | Apr 2009 | 6.63 |
| 139 | The Many-ColouredLland | Julian May | Jul 2007 | 6.6 |
| 140= | A Perfectly Good Man | Patric Gayle | Mar 2013 | 6.55 |
| 140= | Fellside | Mike Carey | Dec 2016 | 6.55 |
| 140= | House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | Jul 2016 | 6.5 |
| 143 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | Feb 2009 | 6.46 |
| 144 | Pigeon English | Sstephen Kelman | Mar 2012 | 6.45 |
| 145 | The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | May 2008 | 6.44 |
| 146= | The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden | Jonas Jonasson | Jun 2014 | 6.4 |
| 146= | My Autobiography | 0 | Nov 2017 | 6.4 |
| 148 | Timolean Vieta Come Home | Dan Rhodes | Jul 2010 | 6.39 |
| 149= | Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen | Jun 2006 | 6.38 |
| 149= | Contempt | 0 | May 2010 | 6.38 |
| 149= | N-W | Zadie Smith | Oct 2013 | 6.38 |
| 152 | Shrines of Gaiety | Kate Atkinson | | 6.3 |
| 153 | The Truth About Celia | 0 | Jul 2020 | 6.25 |
| 154 | Brideshead Revisited | 0 | Oct 2008 | 6.24 |
| 155 | Leave the World Behind | 0 | Apr 2022 | 6.21 |
| 156 | The Hundred Foot Journey | Richard C. Morais | Feb 2014 | 6.17 |
| 157 | Slaughterhouse 5 | Kurt Vonnegut | Oct 2007 | 6.14 |
| 158 | The Sealwoman's Gift | Sally Magnusson | Jan 2023 | 6.11 |
| 159 | If on a Winter's Night a Traveller | Italo Calvino | Feb 2011 | 6.1 |
| 160= | Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife | Sam Savage | Jan 2011 | 6.07 |
| 160= | Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage | Alice Munro | Nov 2013 | 6.07 |
| 162 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | Jul 2009 | 6.05 |
| 163= | Generation X | Douglas Coupland | Apr 2011 | 6 |
| 163= | Paradise | Abdulrazak Gurnah | May 2011 | 6 |
| 163= | The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid | Bill Bryson | Jul 2013 | 6 |
| 163= | Augustus | John Edward Williams | Nov 2015 | 6 |
| 163= | The Dinner | Herman Koch | Apr 2019 | 6 |
| 163= | Strangers on a Train | Patricia Highsmith | Aug 2019 | 6 |
| 169 | The Haunting of Hill House | Susan Hill | May 2015 | 5.95 |
| 170 | The New York Trilogy | Paul Auster | Mar 2018 | 5.94 |
| 171 | Panic | Lauren Oliver | Jul 2006 | 5.92 |
| 172= | Northern Lights | Philip Pullman | Apr 2007 | 5.92 |
| 172= | The Guilty One | Lisa Ballantyne | Feb 2013 | 5.92 |
| 174 | Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Toshikau Kawaguchi | Jun 2023 | 5.9 |
| 175 | A Head Full of Ghosts | Paul G. Tremblay | Sept 2020 | 5.86 |
| 176 | Cup of Gold | John Steinbeck | Aug 2024 | 5.85 |
| 177 | Wandering Souls | Ceceila Pin | May 2024 | 5.79 |
| 178= | A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | Oct 2016 | 5.75 |
| 178= | ExtremelyLloud & Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer | Jan 2017 | 5.75 |
| 180 | To the lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | Oct 2006 | 5.7 |
| 181 | Into the wild | Jon Krakauer | Apr 2010 | 5.67 |
| 182 | The secret mother | Shalini Boland | Oct 2015 | 5.64 |
| 183= | Kalooki nights | Howard Jacobson | Aug 2013 | 5.6 |
| 183= | Priestdaddy | Patricia Lockwood | Apr 2020 | 5.6 |
| 185 | Our kid | Billy Hopkins | Feb 2008 | 5.56 |
| 186= | The bridge | Iain Banks | Apr 2013 | 5.5 |
| 186= | The map of love | Ahdaf Soueif | Sep 2016 | 5.5 |
| 188 | The body in the library | Agatha Christie | May 2017 | 5.36 |
| 189 | The secret agent | Joseph Conrad | Jan 2014 | 5.33 |
| 190 | The Bookseller of Kabul | Åsne Seierstad | Apr 2023 | 5.27 |
| 191 | My name is red | Orhan Pamuk | Sep 2010 | 5.25 |
| 192 | The good soldier | Ford Madox Ford | Jun 2016 | 5.2 |
| 193 | The other hand | Chris Cleave | Jan 2010 | 5.13 |
| 194 | The riders | Tim Winton | Jul 2008 | 5.08 |
| 195= | Peaces | Helen Oyeyemi | Aug 2022 | 5 |
| 195= | Running with scissors | Augusten Burroughs | Jun 2007 | 5 |
| 195= | The private joys of Nenna Moloney | Okechukwu Nzelu | Oct 2024 | 5 |
| 195= | Ablutions | Patrick deWitt | Sep 2017 | 5 |
| 195= | Straight White Man | John NIven | Jan 2025 | 5 |
| 200 | The mind's eye | Oliver Sacks | Jun 2018 | 4.89 |
| 201 | The truth about these strange times | Adam Foulds | May 2013 | 4.86 |
| 202 | The loney | Andrew Michael Hurley | Jan 2016 | 4.85 |
| 203= | Manchester, england | Dave Haslam | Sep 2014 | 4.83 |
| 203= | The crying of lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon | Aug 2015 | 4.83 |
| 205 | The way inn | Will Wiles | Mar 2015 | 4.82 |
| 205 | A vicar, crucified | Simon Parke | Nov 2014 | 4.73 |
| 207 | You were gone | Tim Weaver | Oct 2018 | 4.58 |
| 208 | The promise of happiness | Justin Cartwright | Mar 2024 | 4.5 |
| 209 | One for Sorrow | Helen Fields | Jul 2023 | 4.15 |
| 210 | The full montezuma | Peter Moore | May 2009 | 3.88 |
| 211 | The man who was thursday | G. K. Chesterton | Nov 2011 | 3.61 |
| 212 | Guns, germs and steel | Jared Diamond | Aug 2012 | 3.33 |