| Arivand Adiga | The White Tiger [Atlantic, 2008] |
| Cecelia Ahern | The Gift [Harpercollins, 2008] |
| Sebastian Barry | Secret Scripture [Faber, 2008] |
| Benjamin Black | The Lemur [Picador, 2008] |
| John Boyne | The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas [Doubleday, 2006] |
| Ken Bruen | Sanctuary [Transworld Ireland, 2008] |
| Lee Child | Nothing to Lose [Bantam, 2008] |
| Martina Cole | The Business [Headline, 2008] |
| John Connolly | The Reapers [Hodder & Stoughton, 2008] |
| Michael Connolly | The Brass Verdict [Orion, 2008] |
| Bernard Cornwell | Azincourt [HarperCollins, 2008] |
| A. Conan Doyle | Hound of the Baskervilles [Headline Review, 2007] |
| Tess Gerritson | The Bone Garden [Bantam, 2008] |
| John Grisham | The Appeal [Century, 2008] |
| Moshin Hamid | The Reluctant Fundamentalist [Hamish Hamilton, 2007] |
| Zoe Heller | The Believers [Fig Tree, 2007] |
| Khaled Hosseini | A Thousand Splendid Suns [Bloomsbury, 2007] |
| Conn Iggulden | Bones of the Hills [HarperCollins, 2008] |
| Arnulder Indridason | Jar City [Harvill, 2004] |
| James Joyce | Dubliners [Penguin Books, 2000] |
| Portrait of an artist as a young man [OUP, 2000] | |
| Ulysses [Penguin Books, 2000] | |
| Julia Kelly | With my lazy eye [Lilliput, 2007] |
| Stieg Larsson | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [Quercus, 2008] |
| Val McDermid | A Darker Domain [HarperCollins, 2008] |
| Toni Morrisson | A Mercy [Chatto & Windus, 2008] |
| Irene Nemirovsky | All our Worldly Goods [Chatto & Windus, 2008] |
| Jodi Picoult | Change of Heart [Hodder & Stoughton, 2008] |
| Ian Rankin | Doors Open [Orion, 2008] |
| Alice Sebold | Almost Moon [Picador, 2007] |
| Anita Shreve | Testimony [Little, Brown, 2008] |
| Alexander McCall Smith | La’s Orchestra Saves the World [Polygon, 2008] |
| John Wyndham | Day of the Triffids [Heinemann, 1980] |