Category:Books In Top Tens

O

• On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
• On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening Without Boundaries by Richard Reynolds
• On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition by Charles Darwin and David Quammen (Author and Editor)
• Once Bitten, Twice Shy by Jennifer Rardin
• One by Sarah Crossan
• One Hundred Days of Happiness by Fausto Brizzi
• One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Krushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs
• One More Bite (Jaz Parks) by Jennifer Rardin
• One More Hug For Nutmeg by Caroline Jayne Church
• The One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
• One Red Paperclip: How a Small Piece of Stationery Turned into a Great Big Adventure by Kyle MacDonald
• The One We Fell In Love With by Paige Toon
• Opal Plumstead by Jacqueline Wilson
• Open Very Carefully: A Book with Bite! by Nicola O'Byrne and Nick Bromley
• The Orchard Book of Swords, Sorcerers and Superheroes by Tony Bradman and Tony Ross
• Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray
• Ostrich by Matt Greene
• The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
• Other People's Husbands by Judy Astley
• The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell
• An Otter on the Aga by Rex Harper
• Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell
• Out of Bounds by Bruce Hugman
• Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace
• The Outcast by Sadie Jones
• The Owl Service by Alan Garner
• The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins
• The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation by David Crystal

P

• Paddington by Michael Bond
• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
• The Palace of Strange Girls by Sallie Day
• Palestinian Walks: Notes from a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh
• Panicology by Simon Briscoe and Hugh Aldersey-Williams
• Pao by Kerry Young
• Paper Butterfly by Diane Wei Liang
• Paper Lion by George Plimpton
• The Paper Moon by Andrea Camilleri
• Paris by Edward Rutherfurd
• Parkland by Vincent Bugliosi
• Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
• The Parthenon by Mary Beard
• A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernieres
• The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi
• Patio Produce by Paul Peacock
• Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup by Christopher de Bellaigue
• Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
• Pax by Sara Pennypacker
• Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family by Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive
• The Penny Heart by Martine Bailey
• People of the Day 4: The Rich and Famous Caricatured by Peter Wynter Bee and Lucy Clapham
• A Perfect Ten by Chris Higgins
• Perfumes: The A - Z Guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez
• Perijee & Me by Ross Montgomery
• Personal by Lee Child
• The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber
• The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
• Philida by Andre Brink
• Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
• A Piglet Called Truffle by Helen Peters and Ellie Snowdon
• Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
• A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
• Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss
• Planet Janet by Dyan Sheldon
• Play It Again: An Amateur Against The Impossible by Alan Rusbridger
• Playing FTSE by Penelope Jacobs
• Playing With Bones (DI Joe Plantagenet) by Kate Ellis

P cont.

• The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi
• Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi
• The Poison Garden by Sarah Singleton
• The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly
• The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
• Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard
• Poo in the Zoo by Steve Smallman and Ada Grey
• Possession by A S Byatt
• A Possibility of Violence: An Inspector Avraham Avraham Novel (Inspector Avraham 2) by D A Mishani and Todd Hasak-Lowy (Translator)
• Post Mortem by Kate London
• The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
• The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
• Potty, Fartwell and Knob by Russell Ash
• The Prancing Jacana by Steven Jon Halasz
• Preserves: River Cottage Handbook No 2 by Pam Corbin
• Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica
• Pretty Face by Mary Hogan
• Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never Was by Sean Cunningham
• Prisoner of the Inquisition by Theresa Breslin
• Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
• Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures by Ian Stewart
• Promise of Blood (Powder Mage Trilogy) by Brian McClellan
• Promises of Blood by David Thorne
• Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
• Pugh's New Year's Resolutions by Jonathan Pugh
• The Purchase by Linda Spalding
• Pure by Andrew Miller
• Purge by Sofi Oksanen
• Purple Prose: Bisexuality in Britain by Kate Harrad

Q

• QI: The Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
• Quantum Drop by Saci Lloyd
• Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar
• The Queen's Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle
• Queuing For Beginners by Joe Moran
• Quick Quack Quentin by Kes Gray and Jim Field
• The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
• A Quiet Belief In Angels by R J Ellroy

R

• The Rabbit Factory by Marshall Karp
• The Race by Nina Allan
• The Raft by Arabella Edge
• Railhead by Philip Reeve
• The Railwayman's Wife by Ashley Hay
• Random Acts of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann
• Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
• The Raven's Head by Karen Maitland
• Raven: Blood Eye by Giles Kristian
• Real Food by Nigel Slater
• The Reapers by John Connolly
• Recipe for Love by Katie Fforde
• Reckoning by Magda Szubanski
• Red Dog by Louis de Bernieres
• The Red Fairy Book (Hesperus Fairytale Books) by Andrew Lang
• Red Love: The Story of an East German Family by Maxim Leo
• The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain, Emily Boyce (translator) and Jane Aitken (translator)
• The Red Plague Affair by Lilith Saintcrow
• Redbirds by Rick Bragg
• The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona Maclean
• Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah
• Regeneration by Pat Barker
• The Regulars by Georgia Clark
• The Reliquary Ring by Cherith Baldry
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Repeat It Today With Tears by Anne Peile
• The Repercussions by Catherine Hall
• Respect by Mandasue Heller
• The Restoration Game by Ken MacLeod

R cont.

• Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
• The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller
• Return to Ribblestrop by Andy Mulligan
• Return to Sender by Zoe Barnes
• Revenge of the Lawn by Richard Brautigan
• The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison
• Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick
• The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit Fox
• Ripping Things to Do by Jane Brocket
• Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear by Dan Gardner
• River Cottage Cookbook by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
• The River Singers by Tom Moorhouse
• The Road More Travelled: Tales of those seeking refuge by David Beckler
• The Road to Wanting by Wendy Law-Yone
• Robot Girl by Malorie Blackman
• The Room Beyond by Stephanie Elmas
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• A Room Full of Chocolate by Jane Elson
• Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch by Barbara A Perry
• The Rose Of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon
• Rowan the Strange by Julie Hearn
• RSPCA Complete Dog Care Manual by Dr Bruce Fogle
• Ruby Red by Linzi Glass
• The Rule of Claw by John Brindley
• Running Girl by Simon Mason

S

• The Safest Place by Suzanne Bugler
• The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams and Stephen Fry
• Sandrine by Thomas H Cook
• Sapphique by Catherine Fisher
• Sara's Face by Melvin Burgess
• Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
• Saturday by Ian McEwan
• The Savage by David Almond and Dave McKean
• The Scallywags by David Melling
• Scar Night by Alan Campbell
• Scared To Death by Alan Gibbons
• Science: A Four Thousand Year History by Patricia Fara
• Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman
• The Sea Between Us by Emylia Hall
• Sea Change by Kate Cann
• The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
• The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles
• The Seas by Samantha Hunt
• The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
• The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy by Fiona Neill
• The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin
• The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
• Secrets of the Pomegranate by Barbara Lamplugh
• Secrets of the Sea House by Elisabeth Gifford
• Seeing Spells Achieving by Olive Hickmott and Andrew Bendefy
• The Self-sufficientish Bible by Andy Hamilton and Dave Hamilton
• Selina Penaluna by Jan Page
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
• Sensible Hare and the Case of Carrots by Daren King
• Serious Survival: How to Poo in the Arctic and Other Essential Tips for Explorers by Marshall Corwin
• Set in Stone by Linda Newbery
• The Seventh Well by Fred Wander
• Sex, Lies and Vampires by Katie MacAlister
• The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy by Jo Marchant
• Shadow Web by N M Browne
• Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London by Jennifer Worth
• Shake Rattle and Hurl (Rotten School) by R L Stine
• Shapes by Philip Ball
• Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam by Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton
• Shine Moon Shine by David Conway