The Captive Reader

18^th Century

1778 – Evelina by Frances Burney

19^th Century

1815 – Emma by Jane Austen (read by Fiona Shaw)
1817 – Persuasion by Jane Austen
1847 – Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
1855 – The Warden by Anthony Trollope
1857 – Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
1858 – Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
1861 – Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
1863 – The Rector and The Doctor’s Family by Margaret Oliphant
1864 – The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
1866 – Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
1867 – The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
1868 – War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
1870 – An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
1874 – Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
1876 – Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott
1877 – The American Senator by Anthony Trollope
1878 – Prague Tales by Jan Neruda
1881 – Ayala’s Angel by Anthony Trollope
1898 – Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim

20^th Century

1900 – Tommy and Grizel by J.M. Barrie

1901 – The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett
1901 – The Benefactress by Elizabeth von Arnim
1901 – Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon

1902 – Glengarry School Days by Ralph Connor

1903 – When Patty Went to College by Jean Webster
1903 – Brewster’s Millions by George Barr McCutcheon

1904 – The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Elizabeth von Arnim

1905 – The Princess Priscilla’s Fortnight by Elizabeth von Arnim
1905 – Lovers in London by A.A. Milne

1906 – The Incomplete Amorist by E. Nesbit

1907 – The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
1907 – Fräulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther by Elizabeth von Arnim
1907 – The Spell of the Yukon, and Other Verses by Robert Service

1908 – The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
1908 – Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
1908 – Desire by Una L. Silberrad

1909 – The Caravaners by Elizabeth von Arnim
1909 – Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery

1910 – Psmith in the City by P.G. Wodehouse
1910 – The Day’s Play by A.A. Milne
1910 – Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock

1911 – Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
1911 – Miss Billy by Eleanor H. Porter

1912 – The Unbearable Bassington by Saki

1913 – Behind the Beyond by Stephen Leacock

1914 – The Pastor’s Wife by Elizabeth von Arnim
1914 – Old Friends and New Fancies by Sybil G Brinton
1914 – Once a Week by A.A. Milne
1914 – Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock
1914 – Saturday’s Child by Kathleen Thompson Norris

1915 – The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
1915 – Psmith, Journalist by P.G. Wodehouse
1915 – The Rose-Garden Husband by Margaret Widdemer
1915 – Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery

1916 – Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

1917 – Once on a Time by A.A. Milne
1917 – Wurzel-Flummery by A.A. Milne

1918 – Sunflower by Gyula Krúdy
1918 – Belinda by A.A. Milne
1918 – The Boy Comes Home by A.A. Milne

1919 – Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth von Arnim
1919 – Mr Pim Passes By by A.A. Milne

1920 – Penny Plain by O. Douglas
1920 – In the Mountains by Elizabeth von Arnim
1920 – The Truth About Blayds by A.A. Milne
1920 – The Stepmother by A.A. Milne
1920 – If I May by A.A. Milne
1920 – The Romantic Age by A.A. Milne

1921 – The Dover Road by A.A. Milne
1921 – The Great Broxopp by A.A. Milne

1922 – The Lucky One by A.A. Milne

1923 – Success by A.A. Milne
1923 – Letters from Italy by Karel Čapek
1923 – A Lost Lady by Willa Cather

1924 – To Have the Honour by A.A. Milne
1924 – The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
1924 – Skylark by Dezső Kosztolányi
1924 – Letters from England by Karel Čapek

1925 – Ariadne, or Business First by A.A. Milne
1925 – Easy Virtue by Noel Coward
1925 – Greenery Street by Denis Mackail
1925 – The School at the Chalet by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer

1926 – Portrait of a Gentleman in Slippers by A.A. Milne
1926 – Crewe Train by Rose Macaulay
1926 – The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
1926 – Introduction to Sally by Elizabeth von Arnim

1927 – Miss Marlow at Play by A.A. Milne
1927 – Leadon Hill by Richmal Crompton
1927 –  Meet Mr Mulliner by P.G. Wodehouse

1928 – Eliza for Common by O. Douglas
1928 – Tales from Greenery Street by Denis Mackail
1928 – Felicity – Stands By by Richmal Crompton
1928 – The Ivory Door by A.A. Milne
1928 – The Trials of Topsy by A.P. Herbert

1929 – The Gardener’s Year by Karel Čapek
1929 – Toad of Toad Hall by A.A. Milne
1929 – Another Part of the Wood by Denis Mackail

1930 – Michael and Mary by A.A. Milne
1930 – Mackerel Sky by Helen Ashton
1930 – The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield
1930 – Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers

1931 – The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff
1931 – Autumn Crocus by Dodie Smith
1931 – A White Bird Flying by Bess Streeter Aldrich

1932 – Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann
1932 – Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey, Cheerful Weather for the Wedding reread
1932 – Priorsford by O. Douglas
1932 – Bricks and Mortar by Helen Ashton
1932 – Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple
1932 – Devil’s Cub by Georgette Heyer

1933 – Hostages to Fortune by Elizabeth Cambridge
1933 – Heavy Weather by P.G. Wodehouse
1933 – High Rising by Angela Thirkell
1933 – The Flowering Thorn by Margery Sharp
1933 – Business as Usual by Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford

1934 – Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell
1934 – The Demon in the House by Angela Thirkell
1934 – Miss Buncle’s Book by D.E. Stevenson
1934 – Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie
1934 – Peace with Honour by A.A. Milne
1934 – Weekend at Thrackley by Alan Melville

1935 – Taken by the Hand by O. Douglas
1935 – Four Gardens by Margery Sharp

1936 – Miss Elizabeth Bennet by A.A. Milne
1936 – August Folly by Angela Thirkell
1936 – Call It A Day by Dodie Smith
1936 – The Talisman Ring by Georgette Heyer
1936 – Little G by E.M. Channon
1936 – Live Alone and Like It by Marjorie Hillis
1936 – Susan Settles Down by Molly Clavering

1937 – Summer Half by Angela Thirkell
1937 – Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary by Ruby Ferguson
1937 – Sarah Simple by A.A. Milne
1937 – Bubbly on Your Budget by Marjorie Hillis
1937 – Rosabelle Shaw by D.E. Stevenson

1938 – Manja by Anna Gmeyner
1938 – Pomfret Towers by Angela Thirkell
1938 – Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
1938 – Dear Octopus by Dodie Smith
1938 – Princes in the Land by Joanna Cannan
1938 – The Young Clementina by D.E. Stevenson
1938 – Swiss Sonata by Gwethalyn Graham
1938 – Ruined City by Nevil Shute

1939 – Autobiography by A.A. Milne
1939 – The Brandons by Angela Thirkell
1939 – One Pair of Hands by Monica Dickens
1939 – Green Money by D.E. Stevenson
1939 – Touch Not the Nettle by Molly Clavering

1940 – Cheerfulness Breaks In by Angela Thirkell
1940 – Mariana by Monica Dickens
1940 – Behind the Lines by A.A. Milne
1940 – The English Air by D.E. Stevenson
1940 – Bewildering Cares by Winifred Peck
1940 – Ten Way Street by Susan Scarlett

1941 – The Ugly Duckling by A.A. Milne
1941 – Mrs Tim Carries On by D.E. Stevenson
1941 – Babbacombe’s by Susan Scarlett
1941 – Faro’s Daughter by Georgette Heyer
1941 – Where Stands a Wingèd Sentry by Margaret Kennedy

1942 – Marling Hall by Angela Thirkell
1942 – Under the Rainbow by Susan Scarlett
1942 – Spring Magic by D.E. Stevenson

1943 – Growing Up by Angela Thirkell
1943 – The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
1943 – Celia’s House by D.E. Stevenson
1943 – Speaking of Jane Austen by Sheila Kaye-Smith and G.B. Stern

1944 – Earth and High Heaven by Gwethalyn Graham
1944 – The Headmistress by Angela Thirkell
1944 – Listening Valley by D.E. Stevenson
1944 – Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp
1944 – Pastoral by Nevil Shute
1944 – Yeoman’s Hospital by Helen Ashton

1945 – At Mrs Lippincote’s by Elizabeth Taylor
1945 – Miss Bunting by Angela Thirkell, Miss Bunting re-read
1945 – House-Bound by Winifred Peck
1945 – Saplings by Noel Streatfeild

1946 – Peace Breaks Out by Angela Thirkell, Peace Breaks Out re-read
1946 – The Happy Prisoner by Monica Dickens
1946 – The Four Graces by D.E. Stevenson
1946 – More Was Lost by Eleanor Perényi
1946 – To Bed with Grand Music by Marghanita Laski

1947 – Private Enterprise by Angela Thirkell, Private Enterprise re-read
1947 – One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes
1947 – Kate Hardy by D.E. Stevenson
1947 – Hetty Dorval by Ethel Wilson
1947 – Mrs Tim Gets a Job by D.E. Stevenson

1948 – Love Among the Ruins by Angela Thirkell, Love Among the Ruins re-read
1948 – Uncle Dynamite by P.G. Wodehouse
1948 – The Foundling by Georgette Heyer
1948 – Family Roundabout by Richmal Crompton
1948 – Young Mrs Savage by D.E. Stevenson
1948 – Pirouette by Susan Scarlett

1949 – Vittoria Cottage by D.E. Stevenson
1949 – Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski
1949 – The Old Bank House by Angela Thirkell
1949 – How to Run Your Home Without Help by Kay Smallshaw

1950 – Emily of Deep Valley by Maud Hart Lovelace
1950 – Jane Austen by Margaret Kennedy
1950 – The Coast of Bohemia by Edith Pargeter
1950 – County Chronicle by Angela Thirkell
1950 – More Talk of Jane Austen by Sheila Kaye-Smith and G.B. Stern

1951 – Jane Austen by Sylvia Townsend-Warner
1951 – Before the Flood by A.A. Milne

1952 – Mrs Tim Flies Home by D.E. Stevenson
1952 – Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
1952 – Year In, Year Out by A.A. Milne
1952 – Betsy and the Great World by Maud Hart Lovelace
1952 – Apricot Sky by Ruby Ferguson

1953 – Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton
1953 – Mike and Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse
1953 – Five Windows by D.E. Stevenson
1953 – Über Alles by George Mikes

1954 – What Did It Mean? by Angela Thirkell
1954 – Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman
1954 – Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford

1955 – The Winds of Heaven by Monica Dickens
1955 – Amberwell by D.E. Stevenson
1955 – Betsy’s Wedding by Maud Hart Lovelace
1955 – Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer
1955 – Dear Hugo by Molly Clavering

1956 – Summerhills by D.E Stevenson
1956 – The Legends of Prague by František Langer
1956 – All the Books of My Life by Sheila Kaye-Smith
1956 – The Children Who Stayed Alone by Bonnie Bess Worline
1956 – Spam Tomorrow by Verily Anderson
1956 – Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer
1956 – We Made a Garden by Margery Fish

1957 – Sylvester by Georgette Heyer
1957 – Thunder on the Right by Mary Stewart
1957 – The Eye of Love by Margery Sharp
1957 – Drawn From Memory by E.H. Shepard
1957 – When I Was a Little Boy by Erich Kästner
1957 – New Zealand Inheritance by Essie Summers

1958 – Merry Hall by Beverley Nichols
1958 – The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
1958 – Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
1958 – Anna and Her Daughters by D.E. Stevenson
1958 – The Dreaming Suburb by R.F. Delderfield
1958 – Bachelors Galore by Essie Summers

1959 – Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
1959 – Summer Term by Susan Pleydell
1959 – Still Glides the Stream by D.E. Stevenson

1960 – The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks
1960 – Summoned by Bells by John Betjeman
1960 – The Glenvarroch Gathering by Susan Pleydell
1960 – Pistols for Two by Georgette Heyer

1961 – No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym
1961 – Provincial Daughter by R.M. Dashwood
1961 – The Secret World of Og by Pierre Berton
1961 – Drawn From Life by E.H. Shepard
1961 – Every Frenchman Has One by Olivia de Havilland

1962 – We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
1962 – The Nonesuch by Georgette Heyer
1962 – A Young Man’s Fancy by Susan Pleydell
1962 – Switzerland for Beginners by George Mikes
1962 – Something Wholesale by Eric Newby

1963 – The New Moon with the Old by Dodie Smith
1963 – False Colours by Georgette Heyer

1964 – Katherine Wentworth by D.E. Stevenson

1965 – Frederica by Georgette Heyer
1965 – Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart

1966 – The House on the Cliff by D.E. Stevenson
1966 – Brief Flower by Dorothy Evelyn Smith

1967 – Sarah Morris Remembers by D.E. Stevenson
1967 – The Magic Summer by Noel Streatfeild

1968 – Sarah’s Cottage by D.E. Stevenson
1968 – It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty by Judith Viorst
1968 – The Past is Myself by Christabel Bielenberg

1969 – Never Sleep Three in a Bed by Max Braithwaite
1969 – Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser

1970 – Charity Girl by Georgette Heyer

1971 – The Night We Stole the Mountie’s Car by Max Braithwaite
1971 – London War Notes, 1939-1945 by Mollie Panter-Downes
1971 – A Long Way from Verona by Jane Gardam
1971 – Any Souvenirs? by George Mikes

1972 – The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
1972 – For My Own Amusement by R.F. Delderfield
1972 – Lady of Quality by Georgette Heyer
1972 – A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle

1973 – Under a Cruel Star by Heda Margolius Kovály
1973 – The Summer After the Funeral by Jane Gardam

1974 – The Siren Years by Charles Ritchie
1974 – The Enchanted Places by Christopher Milne
1974 – The Summer of the Great-Grandmother by Madeleine L’Engle
1974 – How I Came to Know Fish by Ota Pavel

1975 – Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
1975 – Bring on the Empty Horses by David Niven
1975 – Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

1976 – Ashes, Ashes, All Fall Down by Zdena Salivarová
1976 – Legend in Green Velvet by Elizabeth Peters
1976 – Gran-Nannie by Noel Streatfeild
1976 – How Did I Get to Be Forty and Other Atrocities by Judith Viorst
1976 – Travels by Jan Morris

1977 – Devil May Care by Elizabeth Peters
1977 – An Appetite for Life by Charles Ritchie
1977 – Sunset at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse
1977 – A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
1977 – I Was a Stranger by General Sir John Hackett
1977 – Goblin Hill by Essie Summers

1978 – This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall! by Gordon Korman
1978 – Victoria Line by Maeve Binchy
1978 – The Passing Bells by Phillip Rock
1978 – God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam
1978 – The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters: Volume One, 1955-1956 edited by Rupert Hart-Davis

1979 – Stephanie by Joan Austen-Leigh
1979 – Mrs Milburn’s Diaries by Clara Milburn, edited by Peter Donnelly
1979 – On the Other Side by Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg
1979 – The Path Through the Trees by Christopher Milne
1979 – The Doctor’s Sweetheart and Other Stories by L.M. Montgomery
1979 – The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters: Volume Two, 1956-1957 edited by Rupert Hart-Davis

1980 – Central Line by Maeve Binchy
1980 – The Sidmouth Letters by Jane Gardam
1980 – Judgement Day by Penelope Lively

1981 – Diplomatic Passport by Charles Ritchie
1981 – A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson
1981 – Nella Last’s War edited by Richard Broad and Suzie Fleming
1981 – Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
1981 – Circles of Time by Phillip Rock
1981 – The Hollow Land by Jane Gardam

1982 – Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido
1982 – Why We Act Like Canadians by Pierre Berton
1982 – The High Path by Ted Walker
1982 – The Magic Apple Tree by Susan Hill

1983 – Storm Signals by Charles Ritchie
1983 – Blue Remembered Hills by Rosemary Sutcliff
1983 – A Beggar in Purple by Rupert Hart-Davis

1984 – The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
1984 – A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories by Eva Ibbotson
1984 – Magic Flutes by Eva Ibbotson
1984 – Beyond the Chestnut Trees by Maria Bauer
1984 – Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon
1984 –  Salt-Water Moon by David French

1985 – A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson
1985 – A Future Arrived by Phillip Rock
1985 – Love Lessons by Joan Wyndham
1985 – The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
1985 – Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich
1985 – To Bring You Joy by Essie Summers
1985 – The Blue Bedroom, and Other Stories by Rosamunde Pilcher

1986 – The Wandering Fire by Guy Gavriel Kay
1986 – The Darkest Road by Guy Gavriel Kay
1986 – Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle
1986 – The Pebbled Shore by Elizabeth Longford

1987 – The Russian Album by Michael Ignatieff
1987 – Firefly Summer by Maeve Binchy
1987 – Heidi’s Alp by Christina Hardyment

1988 – Women of the Raj by Margaret MacMillan
1988 – Madensky Square by Eva Ibbotson
1988 – Two-Part Invention by Madeleine L’Engle
1988 – Sorcery and Cecelia, or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer

1989 – The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor von Rezzori
1989 – A Gentle Plea for Chaos by Mirabel Osler
1989 – The Sky is Falling by Kit Pearson
1989 – Poems of Arab Andalusia translated by Cola Franzen

1990 – Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald
1990 – A.A. Milne: His Life by Ann Thwaite
1990 – Zinky Boys by Svetlana Alexievich
1990 – September by Rosamunde Pilcher

1991 – Looking at the Moon by Kit Pearson
1991 – The Bannister Girls by Jean Saunders

1992 – The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly
1992 – A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
1992 – How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulić
1992 – Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
1992 – A House in Flanders by Michael Jenkins
1992 – The Republic of Love by Carol Shields

1993 – The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson
1993 – Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories by Jenny Uglow
1993 – The Lights Go On Again by Kit Pearson
1993 – More Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
1993 – Cleopatra’s Sister by Penelope Lively

1994 – Mariana by Susanna Kearsley
1994 – A Country Life by Roy Strong
1994 – Oleander, Jacaranda by Penelope Lively
1994 – To War with Whitaker by Hermione Ranfurly
1994 – The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner edited by Claire Harman

1995 – The Rose Revived by Katie Fforde
1995 – The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
1995 – Living Dangerously by Katie Fforde
1995 – The Virago Book of Women Gardeners by Deborah Kellaway
1995 – Talks with T.G. Masaryk by Karel Čapek

1996 – Wild Designs by Katie Fforde
1996 – Cafe Europa by Slavenka Drakulić
1996 – My Sergei: A Love Story by Ekaterina Gordeeva
1996 – Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
1996 – Faith Fox by Jane Gardam
1996 – The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh edited by Charlotte Mosley
1996 – My Name Escapes Me by Alec Guinness

1997 – To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
1997 – Stately Pursuits by Katie Fforde
1997 – The File by Timothy Garton Ash
1997 – A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson, A Song for Summer re-read
1997 – The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley
1997 – The Seasons of Rome by Paul Hofmann
1997 – Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keyes

1998 – Dear Friend and Gardener by Beth Chatto and Christopher Lloyd
1998 – Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
1998 – How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen
1998 – Home from the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean

1999 – Life Skills by Katie Fforde
1999 – Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
1999 – Good Evening, Mrs Craven by Mollie Panter-Downes
1999 – The Falcon at the Portal by Elizabeth Peters
1999 – The Ladies’ Man by Elinor Lipman
1999 – A Positively Final Appearance by Alec Guinness

21^st Century

2000 – Thyme Out by Katie Fforde
2000 – Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach
2000 – Lunch with Jan Wong
2000 – He Shall Thunder in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters
2000 – Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
2000 – The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardam

2001 – The Element of Lavishness: Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell edited by Michael Steinman
2001 – Dearest Vicky, Darling Fritz by John van der Kiste
2001 – Highland Fling by Katie Fforde
2001 – Artistic License by Katie Fforde
2001 – French Leave by Anna Gavalda

2002 – Making Avonlea: L.M. Montgomery and Popular Culture edited by Irene Gammel
2002 – The Day the World Came to Town by Jim Defede
2002 – Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman
2002 – If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho translated by Anne Carson
2002 – Pyongyang by Guy Delisle
2002 – Girl From the South by Joanna Trollope
2002 – Bliss by O.Z. Livaneli
2002 – A Rage for Rock Gardening by Nicola Shulman

2003 – The Laskett by Roy Strong
2003 – Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton
2003 – Leap of Faith by Queen Noor
2003 – Persepolis by Marjane Satrapia
2003 – Almost French by Sarah Turnbull
2003 – Blankets by Craig Thompson
2003 – Mystics, Mavericks and Merrymakers by Stephanie Wellen Levine
2003 – The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by Elinor Lipman

2004 – Paths of Desire by Dominique Browning
2004 – The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
2004 – Imagined London by Anna Quindlen
2004 – Castles in the Air by Judy Corbett
2004 – A Reading Diary by Alberto Manguel
2004 – Restoring Grace by Katie Fforde
2004 – Silver Moon by Ian and Vladyana Krykorka
2004 – Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy
2004 – The Diaries of Harold Nicolson edited by Nigel Nicolson
2004 – Educating Alice by Alice Steinbach

2005 – Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy
2005 – Flora’s Lot by Katie Fforde

2006 – Farthing by Jo Walton
2006 – More Than Love Letters by Rosy Thornton
2006 – Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by Friedrich Christian Delius
2006 – Amanda by Debra White Smith
2006 – Benny & Shrimp by Katarina Mazetti

2007 – Ha’penny by Jo Walton
2007 – Eating India by Chitrita Banerji
2007 – Free for All by Don Borchert
2007 – Unhooked by Laura Sessions Stepp
2007 – Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr
2007 – Canadians by Roy MacGregor
2007 – Can Any Mother Help Me? by Jenna Bailey
2007 – Mr. Knightley’s Diary by Amanda Grange
2007 – American Nerd by Benjamin Nugent
2007 – The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn

2008 – Half a Crown by Jo Walton
2008 – The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
2008 – Wedding Season by Katie Fforde
2008 – The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
2008 – Hearts and Minds by Rosy Thornton
2008 – Oxford Revisited by Justin Cartwright
2008 – The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson
2008 – I’ll Never Be French (no matter what I do) by Mark Greenside
2008 – Such a Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster
2008 – The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide
2008 – Charles and Emma by Deborah Heiligman
2008 – Extraordinary Canadians: Lord Beaverbrook by David Adams Richards
2008 – Vanessa and Virginia by Susan Sellers
2008 – Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle
2008 – The Immigrant by Manju Kapur
2008 – The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
2008 – Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
2008 – Great Expectations: Twenty-Four True Stories About Childbirth edited by Dede Crane and Lisa Moore
2008 – The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
2008 – The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley

2009 – The Lost City of Z by David Grann
2009 – Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
2009 – The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker
2009 – The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University by Kevin Roose
2009 – Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman
2009 – It’s a Don’s Life by Mary Beard
2009 – Born Round by Frank Bruni
2009 – Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill
2009 – Love Letters by Katie Fforde
2009 – Naming Nature by Carol Kaesuk Yoon
2009 – Essex County by Jeff Lemire
2009 – Enchanted Hunters by Maria Tatar
2009 – Facts Are Subversive by Timothy Garton Ash
2009 – Extraordinary Canadians: Pierre Elliott Trudeau by Nino Ricci
2009 – The Betrayal of the Blood Lily by Lauren Willig
2009 – This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
2009 – Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo
2009 – A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen edited by Susannah Carson
2009 – What is Stephen Harper Reading? by Yann Martel
2009 – Extraordinary Canadians: L.M. Montgomery by Jane Urquhart
2009 – Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
2009 – Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
2009 – Snow Job by William Deverell
2009 – Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World by Claire Harman
2009 – A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
2009 – Green Metropolis by David Owen
2009 – I Remember You by Harriet Evans
2009 – The Temptation of the Night Jasmine by Lauren Willig (read by Justine Eyre)
2009 – The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
2009 – Hungry by Crystal Renn
2009 – Hummingbirds by Joshua Gaylord
2009 – Beyond Heaving Bosoms by Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan
2009 – Pilgrims: A Lake Wobegon Romance by Garrison Keillor
2009 – A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka
2009 – The Thoughtful Dresser by Linda Grant
2009 – One Day by David Nicholls
2009 – The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz
2009 – Unsticky by Sarra Manning
2009 – Postcards from Europe by Rick Steves

2010 – The Curious Gardener by Anna Pavord
2010 – A Mountain of Crumbs by Elena Gorokhova
2010 – The Blitz by Juliet Gardiner
2010 – The Thirties: An Intimate History by Juliet Gardiner
2010 – Moving Pictures by Kathryn Immonen and Stuart Immonen
2010 – Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
2010 – Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
2010 – Blackout by Connie Willis
2010 – All Clear by Connie Willis
2010 – How the Girl Guides Won the War by Janie Hampton
2010 – Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomons
2010 – The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks by Stuart McLean
2010 – Far to Go by Alison Pick
2010 – At Home by Bill Bryson
2010 – A Perfect Proposal by Katie Fforde
2010 – A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel
2010 – The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
2010 – Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
2010 – Enlightened Feminism by Susan J. Douglas
2010 – Lunch in Paris: A Love Story with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard
2010 – Isa & May by Margaret Forster
2010 – The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
2010 – The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
2010 – The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
2010 – A River in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters
2010 – This Book is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson
2010 – Writing Jane Austen by Elizabeth Aston
2010 – Dear Money by Martha McPhee
2010 – The Butterfly Mosque by G. Willow Wilson
2010 – The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais
2010 – The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
2010 – Player One by Douglas Coupland
2010 – Locavore by Sarah Elton
2010 – Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
2010 – Sexually, I’m More of a Switzerland edited by David Rose
2010 – The Gentle Art of Quilt-Making by Jane Brocket
2010 – Puppy Love by Frauke Scheunemann
2010 – Boys, Bears, and a Serious Pair of Hiking Boots by Abby McDonald
2010 – Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
2010 – The Ivington Diaries by Monty Don

2011 – Reading Women by Stephanie Staal
2011 – Among Others by Jo Walton
2011 – Leningrad by Anna Reid
2011 – A Force to be Reckoned With by Jane Robinson
2011 – The Orchid Affair by Lauren Willig
2011 – The Adults by Alison Espach
2011 – The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure
2011 – A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz
2011 – Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones
2011 – The Novel in the Viola by Natasha Solomons
2011 – Jane Austen Made Me Do It edited by Laurel Ann Nattress
2011 – A Magnificent Obsession by Helen Rappaport
2011 – How It All Began by Penelope Lively
2011 – Summer of Love by Katie Fforde
2011 – The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley
2011 – Every Day, Every Hour by Nataša Dragnić
2011 – Georgette Heyer by Jennifer Kloester
2011 – Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie
2011 – How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
2011 – Meet Me at the Cupcake Café by Jenny Colgan
2011 – The Fair Miss Fortune by D.E. Stevenson

2012 – Unusual Uses for Olive Oil by Alexander McCall Smith
2012 – Recipe for Love by Katie Fforde
2012 – Elza’s Kitchen by Marc Fitten
2012 – The Astaires by Kathleen Riley
2012 – Prague Winter by Madeleine Albright
2012 – Sunshine on Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith
2012 – My Berlin Kitchen by Luisa Weiss
2012 – English Decoration by Ben Pentreath
2012 – Salt Sugar Smoke by Diana Henry
2012 – Revenge of the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean
2012 – The Fishing Fleet by Anne de Courcy
2012 – Moranthology by Caitlin Moran
2012 – Daughter of Empire by Pamela Hicks
2012 – Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores by Jen Campbell
2012 – More Baths Less Talking by Nick Hornby
2012 – What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan
2012 – Joie de Vivre by Harriet Welty Rochefort
2012 – These Wonderful Rumours! by May Smith

2013 – The Misinterpretation of Tara Jupp by Eva Rice
2013 – The Honey Queen by Cathy Kelly
2013 – The Ashford Affair by Lauren Willig
2013 – A French Affair by Katie Fforde
2013 – The Best Man by Kristan Higgins
2013 – A User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting by Guy Delisle
2013 – The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
2013 – The Wry Romance of the Literary Rectory by Deborah Alun-Jones
2013 – Christmas at High Rising by Angela Thirkell
2013 – The Politics of Washing by Polly Coles

2014 – The Forever Girl by Alexander McCall Smith
2014 – Waiting on You by Kristan Higgins
2014 – It Felt Like a Kiss by Sarra Manning
2014 – Laughing All the Way to the Mosque by Zarqa Nawaz
2014 – The Woman Who Stole My Life by Marian Keyes
2014 – Funny Girl by Nick Hornby

2015 – A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley
2015 – My History by Antonia Fraser
2015 – The Song Collector by Natasha Solomons
2015 – Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes by Virginia Nicholson
2015 – Browsings by Michael Dirda
2015 – The Way of Wanderlust by Don George

2016 – Only in Naples by Katherine Wilson
2016 – Classic German Baking by Luisa Weiss
2016 – To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
2016 – Crosstalk by Connie Willis
2016 – Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay
2016 – Terms and Conditions by Ysenda Maxtone Graham
2016 – For the Glory by Duncan Hamilton
2016 – The Marches by Rory Stewart
2016 – A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
2016 – Cutting Back by Leslie Buck
2016 – Love from Boy edited by Donald Sturrock

2017 – Last Hope Island by Lynne Olson
2017 – Jacob’s Room is Full of Books by Susan Hill
2017 – There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather by Linda Åkeson McGurk
2017 – Travellers in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd
2017 – Leap In by Alexandra Heminsley
2017 – Plot 29 by Allan Jenkins
2017 – Year of Wonder by Clemency Burton-Hill

2018 – The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp by Sarra Manning
2018 – Lands of Lost Borders by Kate Harris

2019 – Where the Hornbeam Grows by Beth Lynch
2019 – Pravda Ha Ha by Rory MacLean
2019 – One More Croissant for the Road by Felicity Cloake

2020 – The Wish List by Sophia Money-Coutts
2020 – Hamnet and Judith by Maggie O’Farrell
2020 – A Rogue of One’s Own by Evie Dunmore
2020 – Once Upon an Eid edited by S.K. Ali and Aisha Saeed
2020 – Indians on Vacation by Thomas King
2020 – The Habsburgs by Martyn Rady
2020 – Our Trip Around the World by Renate Belczyk
2020 – Girl, Unframed by Deb Caletti
2020 – Which Way is Home? by Maria Kiely
2020 – Wild Child by Patrick Barkham

2021 – Donut Fall in Love by Jackie Lau
2021 – Dedicated by Pete Davies
2021 – Will They, Won’t They? by Portia MacIntosh
2021 – We Don’t Know Ourselves by Fintan O’Toole
2021 – Free by Lea Ypi
2021 – The Authority Gap by Mary Ann Sieghart
2021 – Borders by Thomas King
2021 – How We Met by Huma Qureshi

2022 – Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley
2022 – 52 Ways to Walk by Annabel Streets
2022 – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
2022 – French Braid by Anne Tyler
2022 – Again, Rachel by Marian Keyes
2022 – After the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport
2022 – The No-Show by Beth O’Leary
2022 – The Wedding Crasher by Abigail Mann
2022 – Twelve Days in May by Niamh Hargan
2022 – Under One Roof by Ali Hazelwood
2022 – The Temporary European by Cameron Hewitt
2022 – Book Lovers by Emily Henry
2022 – The Meet Cute Method by Portia MacIntosh
2022 – Holding Her Breath by Eimear Ryan
2022 – See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon
2022 – Memory Speaks by Julie Sedivy