 | The Coffin Trail by Martin Edwards
Buy used from: £0.01 Entertaining mystery with great characters.
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 | Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £0.45 Long-overlooked classic now finally getting the recognition it deserves.
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 | I Choose to Live by Sabine Dardenne
Buy new: £4.54 / Used from: £0.01 Compelling if upsetting real-life account of true bravery and resilience.
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 | The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.97 Passable novel but hardly mindblowing from what is supposed to be one of the world's finest authors (and very self-indulgent in places).
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 | The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Dreadful rubbish, can't believe 5-star reviews for this tripe.
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 | Sacred Country by Rose Tremain
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.08 Stunningly beautiful, powerfully written, deeply moving tale of people out of place and trying to find their true home.
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 | Mr Toppit by Charles Elton
Buy new: £9.48 / Used from: £0.01 Mildy amusing in places, nothing special. I expected something more.
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 | Rabbit, Run (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Updike
Buy new: £5.35 / Used from: £0.01 Stylistically impressive in many ways but hardly a fun reading experience.
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 | Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Mediocre family story with underwritten female characters, don't understand the big fuss over this one.
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 | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.01 Passable, offbeat tale but nothing astonishing, despite a very promising opening third or so.
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 | The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
Buy new: £4.80 / Used from: £0.01 Very enjoyable tale, mostly about certain aspects of Mormon history rather than a murder mystery.
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 | The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
Buy used from: £0.01 Enjoyed this, but it feels like a few different stories tacked together. Very readable though and Ludo is a great character.
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 | Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Buy used from: £3.28 Very interesting ideas, not all are well-executed though.
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 | Play Dead by Richard Montanari
Buy new: £3.86 / Used from: £0.01 Passable thriller but a few plot holes and unlikely coincidences along the way and the characters are not very strong.
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 | Howards End (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by E.M. Forster
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £3.02 Very well-written in places but irrelevantly preachy and too much out-of-character behaviour to get the plot going, particularly the two key decisions by the Schlegel sisters.
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 | Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Begins as an entertaining Cold War thriller and ends in the worst kind of serial killer story preposterous nonsense.
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 | Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride
Buy new: £7.42 / Used from: £3.56 Gets very mixed reviews on this site but I thoroughly enjoyed this and liked the use of humour.
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 | The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 I really enjoyed this even if it is a little familiar and predictable.
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 | Unless by Carol Shields
Buy new: £5.95 / Used from: £0.01 Readable but self-indulgent writing and it is difficult to care about the characters. Also, writers writing about writers writing: ugh.
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 | Unforgotten by Clare Francis
Buy new: £4.36 / Used from: £0.01 Well-written but very plodding in its plot and pacing- no real twist in the tale and quite repetitive.
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 | The Tenant by Roland Topor
Buy new: £4.29 / Used from: £2.94 Disturbing tale of a man who starts renting a new flat and begins to lose his mind...!
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 | Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 One of the best books I have read this year, thoroughly captivating and entertaining and superbly-written.
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 | Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Intriguing premise, but badly-executed and reads like a school creative writing essay. No characters to care about, no plot, fails to convince on every level.
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 | Murder in Mesopotamia (Poirot Facsimile Edition) by Agatha Christie
Buy new: £8.73 / Used from: £6.50 Hugely entertaining Christie mystery - a lot of fun and some great moments of humour along the way.
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 | An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Readable, but quite pretentious to be honest, and pretty predictable.
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