This is a fantastic list. I currently own 40 of these excellent titles. Enjoy!
1998
3.5.98 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
7.6.98 Beloved – Toni Morrison
5.7.98 Fatherland – Robert Harris
2.8.98 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernières
6.9.98 Wild Swans – Jung Chang
4.10.98 Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
1.11.98 Vanity Fair – William Thackery
6.12.98 Possession – AS Byatt
1999
3.1.99 1,000 Acres – Jane Smiley
7.2.99 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy / Honourable School Boy / Smiley’s People – John Le Carre
7.3.99 Brazzaville Beach – William Boyd
4.4.99 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
2.5.99 Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
6.6.99 Snow Falling on Cedars – David Gutterson
4.7.99 Behind the Scenes At the Museum – Kate Atkinson
1.8.99 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling
5.9.99 Private Papers – Margaret Forster
3.10.99 Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
7.11.99 Longitude – Dava Sobel
5.12.99 Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
2000
2.1.00 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
6.2.00 House of Spirits – Isabel Allende
5.3.00 Larry’s Party – Carol Shields
2.4.00 Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier
7.5.00 Northern Lights – Philip Pullman
4.6.00 In the Springtime of the Year – Susan Hill
2.7.00 Fasting, Feasting – Anita Desai
6.8.00 Stalingrad – Anthony Beevor
3.9.00 Other People’s Children – Joanna Trollope
1.10.00 Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
22.10.00 The Miller’s Tale/Prologue – Geoffrey Chaucer
3.12.00 Waterland – Graham Swift
2001
7.1.01 Man and Boy – Tony Parsons
4.2.01 Moon Tiger – Penelope Lively
4.3.01 Touching the Void – Joe Simpson
1.4.01 The Witch of Exmoor – Margaret Drabble
6.5.01 The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
3.6.01 The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
1.7.01 The Kitchen God’s Wife – Amy Tan
5.8.01 London Fields – Martin Amis
2.9.01 The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
7.10.01 If I Don’t Know, Serious Concerns, Making Cocoa – Wendy Cope for Kingsley Amis
4.11.01 Talking to the Dead – Helen Dunmore
2.12.01 About a Boy – Nick Hornby
2002
6.1.02 Knots and Crosses / The Falls – Ian Rankin
3.2.02 Empire of the Sun – JG Ballard
3.3.02 Music and Silence – Rose Tremain
7.4.02 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
5.5.02 Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter – Mario Vargas Llosa
2.6.02 Headlong – Michael Frayn
7.7.02 See Under Love – David Grossman
4.8.02 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
1.9.02 From the Holy Mountain – William Dalrymple
6.10.02 A Dark-Adapted Eye – Barbara Vine
3.11.02 The Illustrated Mum – Jacqueline Wilson
1.12.02 Polo – Jilly Cooper
2003
5.1.03 Writing Home – Alan Bennett
2.2.03 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
2.3.03 After Rain – William Trevor
6.4.03 An Awfully Big Adventure – Beryl Bainbridge
4.5.03 Original Sin – PD James
1.6.03 Rebecca – Sally Beauman for Daphne du Maurier
6.7.03 The Tortilla Curtain – T Coraghessan Boyle
3.8.03 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire – Amanda Foreman
7.9.03 Down by the River – Edna O’Brien
5.10.03 Junk – Melvin Burgess
2.11.03 Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
7.12.03 Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
2004
4.1.04 Clinging to the Wreckage and Rumpole & the Younger Generation – John Mortimer
1.2.04 True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey
7.3.04 Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
4.4.04 Falling – Elizabeth Jane Howard
2.5.04 Nice Work – David Lodge
6.6.04 The Scold’s Bridle – Minette Walters
7.7.04 Mort – Terry Pratchett
1.8.04 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
5.9.04 The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
3.10.04 How the Dead Live – Will Self
7.11.04 Regeneration – Pat Barker
5.12.04 The World’s Wife – Carol Ann Duffy
2005
2.1.05 White Teeth – Zadie Smith
6.2.05 A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
6.3.05 The Hippopotamus – Stephen Fry
3.4.05 Independence Day – Richard Ford
1.5.05 Small Island – Andrea Levy
5.6.05 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾
– Sue Townsend
3.7.05 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
– Dr Oliver Sacks
7.8.05 Blood Rain – Michael Dibden
4.9.05 Le Grand Meaulnes – Alain-Fournier
[Michèle Roberts was our guide]
2.10.05 The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
6.11.05 The Gunpowder Plot – Antonia Fraser
4.12.05 We Were the Mulvaneys – Joyce Carol Oates
2006
1.1.06 Flashman – George MacDonald Fraser
5.2.06 Holidays in Hell – P.J. O’Rourke
5.3.06 We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
2.4.06 Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman
7.5.06 Hotel World – Ali Smith
4.6.06 Time to Depart – Lindsey Davis
2.7.06 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
– John Berendt
6.8.06 Rum Punch – Elmore Leonard
3.9.06 English Passengers – Matthew Kneale
1.10.06 Old Filth – Jane Gardam
5.11.06 Malignant Sadness – Lewis Wolpert
3.12.06 Miss Garnet’s Angel – Salley Vickers
2007
7.1.07 The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
4.2.07 The Mermaids Singing – Val McDermid
4.3.07 Eleanor of Aquitaine – Alison Weir
1.4.07 What A Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
6.5.07 My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
3.06.07 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
1.07.07 The Female Eunuch – Germaine Greer
5.08.07 The Remorseful Day – Colin Dexter
2.09.07 Tales of City – Armistead Maupin
7.10.07 Joseph Knight – James Robertson
4.11.07 The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
2.12.07 Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
2008
6.01.08 Alice Sebold -The Lovely Bones
3.02.08 The Birth of Venus – Sarah Dunant
2.03.08 William Pitt the Younger, A Biography – William Hague
6.04.08 Simon Armitage – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
4.05.08 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Half of a Yellow Sun
8.06.08 Jan Morris – Venice
6.07.08 ÅsneSeierstad – The Bookseller of Kabul
3.08.08 Colm Toibin – The Master
7.09.08 Gore Vidal – Point to Point Navigation
