| 1. | ***** | Patrick O'Brian. | H. M. S. Surprise | [Fiction] |
| 2. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Mauritius Command | [Fiction] |
| 3. | ***** | Patrick O'Brian. | Desolation Island | [Fiction] |
| 4. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Fortune of War | [Fiction] |
| 5. | ***** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Surgeon's Mate | [Fiction] |
| 6. | ** | Robert A. Heinlein. | For Us, the Living | [Fiction] |
| 7. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Ionian Mission | [Fiction] |
| 8. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | Treason's Harbour | [Fiction] |
| 9. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Far Side of the World | [Fiction] |
| 10. | ***** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Reverse of the Medal | [Fiction] |
| 11. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Letter of Marque | [Fiction] |
| 12. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Thirteen Gun Salute | [Fiction] |
| 13. | ***** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Nutmeg of Consolation | [Fiction] |
| 14. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Truelove | [Fiction] |
| 15. | ***** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Wine-Dark Sea | [Fiction] |
| 16. | ***** | Oliver Sacks. | Uncle Tungsten | [Biography] |
| 17. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Commodore | [Fiction] |
| 18. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Yellow Admiral | [Fiction] |
| 19. | **** | Nancy Pearl. | Book Lust | [Bibliography] |
| 20. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Hundred Days | [Fiction] |
| 21. | *** | John Churchill Chase. | Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children and Other Streets of New Orleans | [History] |
| 22. | *** | Patrick O'Brian. | Blue at the Mizzen | [Fiction] |
| 23. | **** | Eric Ambler. | Journey Into Fear | [FIction] |
| 24. | *** | David Edmonds and John Eidinow. | Bobby Fischer Goes to War | [History] |
| 25. | ** | Frederik Pohl. | Mining the Oort | [Fiction] |
| 26. | *** | Arthur Conan Doyle. | The Lost World | [Fiction] |
| 27. | **** | Len Deighton. | Basic French Cookery Course | [Cooking] |
| 28. | *** | Seth Shulman. | Unlocking the Sky | [Fiction] |
| 29. | *** | Marjane Satrapi. | Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood | [Comics/Biography] |
| 30. | ** | Eric Ambler. | The Dark Frontier | [Fiction] |
| 31. | ** | Geoffrey Pike. | To Ruhleben and Back | [History/Biography] |
| 32. | ***** | Len Deighton. | Blood, Tears and Folly | [History] |
| 33. | *** | Alec Waugh. | The Prisoners of Mainz | [History] |
| 34. | *** | P. G. Wodehouse. | Right Ho, Jeeves | [Fiction] |
| 35. | **** | Alan Clark. | The Donkeys | [History] |
| 36. | ***** | Len Deighton. | Berlin Game | [Fiction] |
| 37. | **** | Benson Bobrick. | East of the Sun | [History] |
| 38. | **** | Len Deighton. | Mexico Set | [Fiction] |
| 39. | ***** | Len Deighton. | London Match | [Fiction] |
| 40. | **** | Julian Baggini. | Atheism: A Very Short Introduction | [Philosophy] |
| 41. | **** | Eric Ambler. | Epitaph for a Spy | [Fiction] |
| 42. | **** | Kingsley Amis. | The Riverside Villas Murder | [Fiction] |
| 43. | *** | Len Deighton. | Winter | [Fiction] |
| 44. | *** | Walter O'Meara. | The Savage Country | [Fiction] |
| 45. | *** | Elizabeth Enright. | Gone-Away Lake | [Fiction] |
| 46. | ***** | Ursula K. Le Guin. | The Dispossessed | [Fiction] |
| 47. | **** | Len Deighton. | Spy Hook | [Fiction] |
| 48. | **** | Len Deighton. | Spy Line | [Fiction] |
| 49. | *** | Len Deighton. | Spy Sinker | [Fiction] |
| 50. | **** | Stefan Fatsis. | Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius and Obsession in the World of Competitive SCRABBLE Players | [Non-fiction] |
| 51. | *** | Bill Zuk. | Avrocar: Canada's Flying Saucer | [Aviation] |
| 52. | **** | Howard Fast. | Spartacus | [Fiction] |