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1. 1965: The Folks That Live on the Hill
2. 1966: Doctor Faustus
3. 1967: Endless Night
4. 1968: Homage To Catalonia
5. 1969: The House of Mirth
6. 1970: Setting Free the Bears
7. 1971: A Doll's House
8. 1972: I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation (Originally published in 2005))
9. 1973
10 1974
11 1975: Shogun: A Novel of Japan
12 1976
13 1977
14 1978
15 1979
16 1980: The Bourne Identity
17 1981
18 1982
19 1983: The Pearl
20 1984: Hotel Du Lac
21 1985: Monk's Hood (Orginally published 1991)
22 1986
23 1987
24 1988
25 1989: Death in High Heels
26 1990: Poirot Investigates
27 1991: The Firm
28 1992
29. 1993: The Last Disco In Outer Mongolia
30 1994
31 1995: Susters van Eva
32 1996
33 1997
34 1998: Butterfly Burning
35 1999: In Chancery
36 2000
37 2001: The Kill Artist
38 2002: Baudolino
39 2003
40 2004
41 2005: Children of the New World (originally published 1962
42 2006
43 2007: The Sheltering Sky
44 2008: The League of Youth
45 2009
46 2010
47 2011: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
48 2012: The Bat
49 2013: Cockroaches
50 2014: Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter
51 2015: The Razor's Edge* (Originally published in 1944)
52 2016: Yes Please* (Originally published in 2014)
53 2017: Winnie-the-Pooh* (Originally published in 1926)
54 2018: The Late Monsieur Gallet* (Originally published in 1931)
55 2019: Travels in West Africa* (Orginally published in 1897)
56 2020: The Villagers*(Orginally published 1934)

1973:
1982: Fellowship of fear - Aaron Elkins
1987: Knots and crosses- Ian Rankin
1992: Death at La Fenice - Donna Leon
1993: Guilty pleasures - Laurell K Hamilton
1994: The Laughing corpse - Laurell K Hamilton
1995: Our game - John le Carre
1996: Bloody bones - Laurell K Hamilton
1997: The Killing dance - Laurell K Hamilton
1998: Burnt offerings - Laurell K Hamilton
1999: Black notice - Patricia Cornwell
2000:
2001: A crown of lights - Phil Rickman
2002:
2003: Dance with the devil - Sherrilyn Kenyon
2004: Night play - Sherrilyn Kenyon
2005: Espresso Tales - Alexander McCall Smith
2006:
2007:
2008:
2009:
2010: Broken - Karen Slaughter
2011: Claimed - Rebecca Zanetti
2012:
2013: The dark witch - Nora Roberts
2014:
2015: The Winter Laird - Nancy Scanlon
2016: Dark planet warriors - Anna Carven
2017: Electric heart - Anna Carven
2018: Heart of a cat - SE Smith
2019: The girl in cabin 13 - AJ Rivers
2020:Untamed shore - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
2021: Wild knight - Annabel Chase
2022: You can run - Rebecca Zanetti

Updated 1 Jan 2023:
1975
1976
1977 -The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
1978
1979 - Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
1980
1981
1982
1983 - The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
1984
1985 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000 - Douglas Botting's Gerald Durrell: The Authorised Biography
2001 - Year of wonders by Geraldine Brooks
2002 - Coraline Graphic Novel by P. Craig Russell and Neil Gaiman
2003 - Murder in the Museum [Fethering Mystery #4] by Simon Brett
2004 - The Story of the World #3. Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the Frist to the Forty-Niners by Susan Wise Bauer
2005 � Looking for Alaska by John Green
2006 - Elantris #1 by Brandon Sanderson
2007
2008
2009 - A.Lincoln by Ronald C. White Jr
2010
1. 2011 - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
2012
2013 - The English Girl by Daniel Silva [Gabriel Allon #13]
2014 � Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
2015 - Half a War [Shattered Sea #3] by Joe Abercrombie
2016 - The One-In-A-Million Boy by Monica Wood
2017 - Radium Girls by Kate Moore
2018 - Frederick Douglas: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
2019 - I am Costa: From Meth to Marathons by Costa Carastavrakis
2020 - The Incredible Journey of Plants by Stefano Mancuso and Gregory Conti [translator]
2021 � Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
2022 - Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
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