100+ Books in 2025 discussion

1. Ox-tales: fire, compiled by Oxfam.

2. Tail of the blue bird, by Nii Ayikwei Parkes

3. The graveyard book, by Neil Gaiman

4. The outcast, by Sadie Jones

5. Thursday Next: First among sequels, by Jasper Fforde

6. Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout [image error]

7. Animal, vegetable, miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver

8. Someone knows my name/The book of Negroes, by Lawrence Hill

9. Teacher man, by Frank McCourt

10. The somnambulist, by Jonathan Barnes

11. Money galore, by Amu Djoleto

12. Security breach, by Humphrey Hawksley

13. The house at Sugar Beach, by Helene Cooper

14. Skeleton Key, by Anthony Horowitz

15. Somewhere towards the end, by Diana Athill

16. White nights, by Anne Cleeves

17. Sovereign, by C J Sansom

18. The Grand Sophy, by Georgette Heyer

19. Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi

20. Houseboy, by Ferdinand Oyono

21. Pavel & I, by Dan Vyleta

22. The adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

23. The girl who kicked the hornet's nest, by Stieg Larsson

24. Firmin, by Sam Savage

25. Indian summer: the secret history of the end of an empire, by Alex von Tunzelmann

26. Gut feelings, by Gerd Gigerenzer

27. The gargoyle, by Andrew Davidson

28. The saffron pear tree, by Zuretha Roos

29. Mystic River, by Dennis Lehane

30. Minority report, by Philip Dick

31. The Boston curse, by M J Poynter

32. Joe's hair that talks, by Greg Coyle

33. Onitsha, by J M G LeClezio

34. December,by Elizabeth H Winthrop

35. Circles, by Boakyewaa Glover

36. The last detective, by Robert Crais

37. African psycho, by Alain Mabanckou

38. Zahrah the windseeker, by Nnedi Okorafo-Mbachu

39. Thud, by Terry Pratchett

40. The state counsellor, by Boris Akunin

41, The secret river, by Kate Grenville

42. The fourth bear, by Jasper Fforde

43. On black sisters' street, by Chika Unigwe

44. The Ministry of fear, by Graham Greene

45. The clothes of nakedness, by Benjamin Kwakye

46. King Leopold's ghost, by Adam Hochschild

47. Nightwatch, by Sergei Lukyanenko

48. When will there be good news? by Kate Atkinson

49. When you are engulfed in flames, by David Sedaris

50. A case of exploding mangoes, by Mohammed Hanif

Wow: I've actually hit 50 - maybe slightly more though I don't record the "cookbooks" here!

51. Imagine this, by Sade Adeniran

52. Moving pictures, by Terry Pratchett

53. The settler's cookbook, by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

54. The other crucifix, by Benjamin Kwakye

55. Powder necklace, by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

56. True murder, by Yaba Badoe

57. Tattoos on the heart, by Gregory Boyle

58. The art of racing in the rain, by Garth Stein

60. Baltasar and Blimunda, by Jose Saramago

61. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides

62. It's our turn to eat, by Michela Wrong

63. No worries, by NAWA

64. Ghana - culture smart, by Ian Utley

65. The boy in the striped pajamas, by John Boyne

66. Woman at Point Zero, by Nawal El Saadawi

67. Ababio, by Seestah Imahkus Njinga Ababio

68. Cutting for stone, by Abraham Verghese

69. The art of travel, by Alain de Botton

70. The front, by Patricia Cornwell