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1926-1935

1926: Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne 

1927: To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf  

1928: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

1929: The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey

1930:Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

1931: The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck

1932: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

1933: Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

1934: Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald

1935: The Stars Look Down by AJ Cronin

1936-1945

1936: Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield

1937: The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

1938: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

1939: Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood

1940: For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

1941: Traitor's Purse by Margery Allingham

1942: The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

1943: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery

1944: Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer

1945: Animal Farm by George Orwell

1946-1955

1946: Lord Hornblower by CS Forester

1947: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

1948: Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

1949: Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford

1950: Kate Hannigan by Catherine Cookson

1951: The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

1952: Charlotte's Web by EB White

1953: Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

1954: The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff

1955: A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

1956-1965

1956: The City and the Stars by Arthur C Clarke

1957: The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean

1958: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

1959: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

1960: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 

1961: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 

1962: Cover Her Face by PD James 

1963: Stig of the Dump by Clive King

1964: When The Lion Feeds by Wilbur Smith 

1965: Dune by Frank Herbert  

1966-1975

1966: Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann  

1967: The Outsiders by SE Hinton 

1968: A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines 

1969: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 

1970: If Only They Could Talk by James Herriot 

1971: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson 

1972: The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin  

1973: Carrie's War by Nina Bawden  

1974: Carrie by Stephen King 

1975: Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1976-1985

1976: Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice 

1977: The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough 

1978: Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin 

1979: Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews  

1980: Smiley's People by John Le Carre

1981: Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith 

1982: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend 

1983: Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins 

1984: The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy 

1985: Riders by Jilly Cooper

1986-1995

1986: Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 

1987: The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher 

1988: Touching the Void by Joe Simpson 

1989: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 

1990: Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell 

1991: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon 

1992: The Secret History by Donna Tartt 

1993: Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab 

1994: The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy 

1995: Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson  

1996-2005

1996: Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding 

1997: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling

1998: About A Boy by Nick Hornby 

1999: The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves 

2000: Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella aka Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic 

2001: Atonement by Ian McEwan  

2002: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold  

2003: Brick Lane by Monica Ali

2004: PS I Love You by Cecelia Ahern

2005: The Island by Victoria Hislop 

2006-2015

2006: The House at Riverton by Kate Morton

2007: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 

2008: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 

2009: One Day by David Nicholls 

2010: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 

2011: Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson 

2012: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce 

2013: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson 

2014: The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

2015: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 

2016-2025

2016: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 

2017: I Am I Am I Am by Maggie O'Farrell

2018: Circe by Madeline Miller 

2019: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo 

2020: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 

2021: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 

2022: Babel by RF Kuang

2023: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 

2024: All The Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker 

2025: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

2026... We're so excited to see what will be popular in 2026!