BBC World Book Club

1

The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

19,748 members

373 reviews

3.9

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: November 2002

2

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

by Jung Chang

8,365 members

160 reviews

4.1

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: March 2003

3

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,653 members

1,149 reviews

4.1

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: April 2003

4

The Colour of Magic

by Terry Pratchett

22,193 members

447 reviews

3.8

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: May 2003

5

A Judgement in Stone

by Ruth Rendell

1,058 members

32 reviews

4

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: August 2003

6

Oscar and Lucinda

by Peter Carey

4,148 members

68 reviews

3.8

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: September 2003

7

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

14,007 members

247 reviews

4.1

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: November 2003

8

A House for Mr Biswas

by V. S. Naipaul

3,464 members

69 reviews

3.8

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: December 2003

9

The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan

17,661 members

199 reviews

3.9

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: January 2004

10

Gorky Park

by Martin Cruz Smith

3,813 members

78 reviews

3.9

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: February 2004

11

Possession

by A.S. Byatt

13,015 members

289 reviews

4

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: March 2004

12

Girl with a Pearl Earring

by Tracy Chevalier

17,342 members

321 reviews

3.8

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: May 2004

13

Lake Wobegon Days

by Garrison Keillor

4,393 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: September 2002

14

Eye of the Needle

by Ken Follett

5,374 members

93 reviews

4

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: June 2004

15

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

16,465 members

479 reviews

4.2

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: November 2004

16

The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

39,404 members

1,043 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: December 2004

17

Original Sin

by P. D. James

2,974 members

42 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: January 2005

18

Atonement

by Ian McEwan

26,600 members

629 reviews

3.9

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: March 2005

19

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,973 members

245 reviews

4

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: September 2005

20

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

36,373 members

744 reviews

4.1

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: December 2005

21

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

by Louis De Bernières

8,016 members

156 reviews

3.9

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: January 2006

22

Presumed Innocent

by Scott Turow

4,332 members

76 reviews

3.8

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: February 2006

23

The No. 1 Ladiesʼ Detective Agency

by Alexander McCall Smith

14,211 members

401 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: March 2006

24

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

44,202 members

709 reviews

4.1

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: May 2006

25

Money: A Suicide Note

by Martin Amis

3,309 members

56 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: October 2002

26

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,808 members

435 reviews

3.8

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: June 2006 repeated July 2008

27

Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

43,779 members

1,013 reviews

3.9

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: January 2007

28

The Wasp Factory

by Iain Banks

7,124 members

204 reviews

3.8

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: March 2007

29

Tales of the City

by Armistead Maupin

4,996 members

109 reviews

3.9

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: September 2007

30

The English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje

11,695 members

174 reviews

3.9

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: October 2007

31

The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

19,608 members

315 reviews

4.2

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: December 2007

32

Postmortem

by Patricia Cornwell

7,208 members

108 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: February 2008

33

A Thousand Acres

by Jane Smiley

6,190 members

137 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: March 2008

34

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

53,015 members

1,300 reviews

4.2

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: May 2008

35

The World According to Garp

by John Irving

15,340 members

198 reviews

4.1

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: June 2008

36

Nice Work

by David Lodge

1,821 members

21 reviews

3.8

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: August 2008

37

The Shipping News

by E. Annie Proulx

13,478 members

250 reviews

3.9

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: September 2008 (with 'Brokeback Mountain')

38

Brokeback Mountain

by Annie Proulx

2,719 members

99 reviews

3.9

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: September 2008 (with 'The Shipping News')

39

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,870 members

342 reviews

4.1

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: November 2008

40

Omeros

by Derek Walcott

1,147 members

21 reviews

3.9

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: December 2008

41

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

23,005 members

409 reviews

3.9

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: January 2009

42

Snow Falling on Cedars

by David Guterson

12,981 members

190 reviews

3.8

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: February 2009

43

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

6,952 members

297 reviews

4.1

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: June 2009

44

We Need to Talk About Kevin

by Lionel Shriver

7,819 members

396 reviews

4.1

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: July 2009 repeated October 2011

45

The Inheritance of Loss

by Kiran Desai

6,955 members

195 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: January 2010

46

Small Island

by Andrea Levy

4,023 members

140 reviews

3.9

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: February 2010

47

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

by John Boyne

15,106 members

854 reviews

4

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: March 2010

48

The Famished Road

by Ben Okri

2,382 members

38 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: December 2002

49

The Redbreast

by Jo Nesbø

4,469 members

158 reviews

3.8

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: April 2011

50

A Place of Execution

by Val McDermid

1,729 members

42 reviews

4

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: June 2011

51

Faceless Killers

by Henning Mankell

5,354 members

206 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: July 2011

52

In the Country of Men

by Hisham Matar

1,291 members

61 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: humouress, ahef1963
Explanations: humouress: September 2011

53

The Buddha of Suburbia

by Hanif Kureishi

2,987 members

54 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: January 2003

54

The Grass Is Singing

by Doris Lessing

2,211 members

73 reviews

3.9

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: February 2003

55

Flaubert's Parrot

by Julian Barnes

3,951 members

73 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: July 2003

56

The Day of the Jackal

by Frederick Forsyth

5,318 members

90 reviews

4

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: October 2003

57

The Female Eunuch

by Germaine Greer

2,310 members

21 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: April 2004

58

Red Dust

by Gillian Slovo

170 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: July 2004

59

My Michael

by Amos Oz

605 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: August 2004

60

Fasting, Feasting

by Anita Desai

1,010 members

23 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: September 2004

61

The Commitments

by Roddy Doyle

1,389 members

27 reviews

3.8

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: October 2004

62

White Teeth

by Zadie Smith

13,695 members

248 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: February 2005

63

When the Lion Feeds

by Wilbur Smith

1,087 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: April 2005

64

Fever Pitch

by Nick Hornby

4,698 members

58 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: May 2005

65

The Death of Artemio Cruz

by Carlos Fuentes

1,811 members

21 reviews

3.8

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: June 2005

66

Blonde

by Joyce Carol Oates

2,154 members

63 reviews

4

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: July 2005

67

A Dry White Season

by André Brink

789 members

24 reviews

4

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: August 2005

68

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

14,883 members

225 reviews

4

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: October 2005

69

A Suitable Boy

by Vikram Seth

5,772 members

108 reviews

4.2

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: November 2005

70

My Name Is Red

by Orhan Pamuk

7,056 members

173 reviews

3.8

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: April 2006

71

The Rector's Wife

by Joanna Trollope

651 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: July 2006

72

Black and Blue

by Ian Rankin

2,226 members

40 reviews

3.9

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: August 2006

73

Chicken Soup with Barley (Modern Plays)

by Arnold Wesker

20 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: September 2006

74

Angela's Ashes

by Frank McCourt

21,956 members

337 reviews

4

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: October 2006

75

Brazzaville Beach

by William Boyd

1,300 members

35 reviews

3.8

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: November 2006

76

A Perfect Spy

by John le Carré

3,834 members

63 reviews

3.8

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: December 2006

77

Restoration

by Rose Tremain

1,290 members

48 reviews

3.8

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: February 2007

78

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

by Mario Vargas Llosa

2,660 members

71 reviews

3.9

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: April 2007

79

Aké: The Years of Childhood

by Wole Soyinka

732 members

11 reviews

4

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: May 2007

80

Schindler's Ark

by Thomas Keneally

8,268 members

98 reviews

4.2

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: June 2007

81

The Selfish Gene

by Richard Dawkins

10,874 members

120 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: July 2007

82

Trainspotting

by Irvine Welsh

7,775 members

79 reviews

4

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: August 2007

83

Indemnity Only

by Sara Paretsky

1,517 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: November 2007

84

The Country Girls

by Edna O'Brien

777 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: January 2008

85

Birdsong

by Sebastian Faulks

6,105 members

156 reviews

4

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: April 2008

86

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

by Mohsin Hamid

5,236 members

251 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: March 2009

87

The Secret River

by Kate Grenville

2,811 members

130 reviews

3.8

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: April 2009

88

Woman at Point Zero

by Nawal El Saadawi

1,056 members

36 reviews

3.9

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: May 2009

89

The Tin Drum

by Günter Grass

7,622 members

93 reviews

4

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: October 2009

90

The Yacoubian Building

by Alaa al-Aswani

2,048 members

96 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: November 2009

91

American Tabloid

by James Ellroy

2,852 members

44 reviews

4.1

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: December 2009

92

Desert

by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

700 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: April 2010

93

The Sportswriter

by Richard Ford

2,936 members

61 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: May 2010

94

Cloud Atlas: A Novel

by David Mitchell

17,785 members

684 reviews

4.1

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: June 2010

95

The Shadow of the Wind

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

28,027 members

1,043 reviews

4.1

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: July 2010

96

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

26,395 members

502 reviews

4.2

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: October 2010

97

Burnt Shadows

by Kamila Shamsie

940 members

80 reviews

4

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: November 2010

98

The Good Doctor

by Damon Galgut

673 members

26 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: December 2010

99

The Reader

by Bernhard Schlink

13,471 members

395 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: January 2011

100

Eat the Rich

by P. J. O'Rourke

1,132 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: humouress
Explanations: humouress: February 2011

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