 | Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Cloud Atlas made the headlines but his debut has a more direct humanist tone without the literary pastiche
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 | 253 by Geoff Ryman
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Ryman is an inventive writer, changing genres. This one doesn't have a genre, but will stick with you. 253 real characters and London's Tube star.
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 | Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love by Dan Rhodes
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 Dark. Bitter. Funny. Unsettling. Creepy. Beguiling.
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 | The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer
Buy used from: £0.05 A very funny novelist, who makes you laugh so much you could miss how good his words are. My favourite of his.
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 | Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.00 Fight Club yes, but here Palahniuk's new course in magical realism hits the payload. The best since...
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 | Eight Minutes Idle by Matt Thorne
Buy used from: £1.67 Making a effort to buy contempory British authors, Thorne stands out for his finely observsed tales of life as lived by the rest of us.
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 | The Insult (Bloomsbury Classic Reads) by Rupert Thomson
Buy new: £4.81 / Used from: £0.01 It could be considered a 'detective' story or thriller. Starts one one place, ends somehere else. Not run of the mill.
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 | No Second Chance by Harlan Coben
Buy used from: £0.01 Superbly tense writing, not a word wasted. Not a detective whodunnit but incredibly taut tale of kidnapped daughter.
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 | Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.17 A great conspiracy dective yarn with a denouement you wont see coming. His others I found a let down including Mystic River.
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 | 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life by Roger-Pol Droit
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 I'm probably on my 8th copy as I keep giving it away to friends. You owe yourself time to browse this book. Not a novel.
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 | Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 His best since Girlfriend... His maturity shows, no big themes but much more under the skin of ordinary people
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 | I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
Buy new: £4.77 / Used from: £0.01 Balances on a single premise with stylised prose. But stays with you. And beneath the belly is some dark anger.
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 | Going Out by Scarlett Thomas
Buy used from: £2.31 One of the books my wife and friends didn't rate as much as me. But I still do. More great contempory British fiction, bring it on.
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 | Free by Paul Vincent
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £3.99 Hybrid. Wrapped around a thriller is a comic love story travelogue. The best part is that is works. For some reason unknown, change that and read it.
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 | Beholden by Clare Littleford
Buy used from: £0.01 What I thought was slack plotting turned out to be something more sinsiter. Nottingham has it's own Patrica Highsmith
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 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £6.94 / Used from: £0.01 I know, everyone's read it. Just in case you haven't: do. Another left field thriller, the polar opposite to Dan Brown.
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 | Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £2.39 Sci-fi fans seems to hate it, Gibson focuses on the real world and in the guise of a thriller muses internet communities, advertising and instant-global-culture. For me, his best book.
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 | The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £2.81 Sometimes we should lift are heads from our novels. Starts 60s funny, ends Iraq scary.
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 | The Screaming Tree by Phil Lovesey
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 Another psychological thriller. A whodunnit in a very different sense. Catch up on your sleep before reading.
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 | The Snow (Gollancz S.F.) by Adam Roberts
Buy used from: £0.01 I started 2004 with this. Part post apocalyptic, post parable about Govenment 'care' for it's citizens, part.... Best read it, this I recommend because it was different, rather than stay-up-all-night.
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