Endeavor Historical Dagger

2017
Winner
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee

Shortlist
The Devil’s Feast by MJ Carter

The Ashes of Berlin by Luke McCallin
The Long Drop by Denise Mina

By Gaslight by Steven Price
The City in Darkness by Michael Russell

Longlist
The Coroner’s Daughter by Andrew Hughes
The Black Friar by SG MacLean
Darktown by Thomas Mullen
Dark Asylum by ES Thomson

2016
Winner
Stasi Child by David Young

Shortlist
The House at Baker Street by Michelle Birkby
The Other Side of Silence by Phillip Kerr
A Book of Scars by William Shaw
The Jazz Files by Fiona Veitch Smith
Striking Murder by AJ Wright

2015
Winner
The Seeker by SG MacLean

Shortlist
Havana Sleeping by Martin Davies
The Man from Berlin by Luke McCallin
The Taxidermist’s Daughter by Kate Mosse
Lamentation by CJ Sansom
The Silent Boy by Andrew Taylor

2014
Winner
The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson

Shortlist
Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders by Kate Griffin
Treachery by SJ Parris
The Late Scholar by Jill Paton Walsh
Theft of Life by Imogen Robertson
The City of Strangers by Michael Russell
The Dead Can Wait by Robert Ryan

Historical Dagger
2013
Winner
The Scent of Death by Andrew Taylor

Shortlist
The Heretics by Rory Clements
Pilgrim Soul by Gordon Ferris
The Paris Winter by Imogen Robertson
Dead Men and Broken Hearts by Craig Russell
The Twelfth Department by William Ryan

Ellis Peters Historical Award
2012
Winner
Icelight by Aly Monroe

Shortlist
The Crown by Nancy Bilyeau
Bitter Water by Gordon Ferris
I will have vengeance by Maurizio di Giovanni
Prague Fatale by Phillip Kerr
Sacrilege by SJ Parris
A Willing Victim by Laura Wilson

2011
Winner
The Somme Stations by Andrew Martin

Shortlist
Prince by Rory Clements
The Red Coffin by Sam Eastland
The Hanging Shed by Gordon Ferris
The Cleansing Flames by RN Morris
Island of Bones by Imogen Robertson

2010
Winner
Revenger by Rory Clements

Shortlist
Washington Shadow by Aly Monroe
Heresy by SJ Parris
Heartstone by CJ Sansom
The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor
To Kill A Tsar by Andrew Williams

2009
Winner
If The Dead Rise Not by Phillip Kerr

Shortlist
The Dead of Winter by Rennie Airth
The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona MacLean
The Intelligence Officer by Mark Mills
The Interrogator by Andrew Williams
An Empty Death by Laura Wilson

2008
Winner
Stratton’s War by Laura Wilson

Shortlist
Last Nocturne by Marjorie Eccles
The Death Maze by Ariana Franklin
A Mortal Curiosity by Ann Granger
Inspector Ghote’s First Case by HRF Keating
A Quiet Flame by Phillip Kerr
Death on a Branch Line by Andrew Martin
A Vengeful Longing by RN Morris
Revelation by CJ Sansom
Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor

2007
Winner
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin

Shortlist
The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin
The One From the Other by Phillip Kerr
Murder at Deviation Junction by Andrew Martin
The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

2006
Winner
Red Sky Lament by Edward Wright

Shortlist
The Pale Blue Eyes by Louis Bayard
Nefertiti & The Book of the Dead by Nick Drake
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
The Sultan’s Seal by Jenny White

Ellis Peters Historical Dagger
2005
Winner
Dark Fire by CJ Sansom

Shortlist
The God of Chaos by Tom Bradby
The Palace Tiger by Barbara Cleverly
After the Armistice Ball by Catriona McPherson
The Portrait by Iain Pears
Mortal Mischeif by Frank Tallis

2004
Winner
The Damascened Blade by Barbara Cleverly

Shortlist
The Shape of Sand by Marjorie Eccles
Hell at the Breech by Tom Franklin
The Thief Taker by Janet Gleeson
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
The Judgement of Caesar by Steven Saylor
The Lover by Laura Wilson

2003
Winner
The American Boy by Andrew Taylor

Shortlist
The White Russian by Tom Bradby
The Advocate by Marcello Fois
London Dust by Lee Jackson
Blood on the Wood by Gillian Linscott
Dissolution by CJ Sansom
The Bridge of Sights by Olen Steinhauer

2002
Winner
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Shortlist
The Jupiter Myth by Lindsey Davis
The Pale Companion by Philip Gooden
Dead Man Riding by Gillian Linscott
The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Somoza
The Desperate Remedy by Martin Stephen

2001
Winner
The Office of the Dead by Andrew Taylor

Shortlist
Ode To A Banker by Lindsey Davis
A Distinction of Blood by Hannah March
A Cold Touch of Ice by Michael Pearce
Last Seen in Massila by Steven Saylor
Mortal Sins by Penn Williamson

2000
Winner
Absent Friends by Gillian Linscott

1999
Winner
Two for the Lions by Lindsey Davis

All-TIME 100 Novels

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
A Death in the Family by James Agee
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Money by Martin Amis
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
Herzog by Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs
Possession by AS Byatt
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Falconer by John Cheever
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Ubik by Philip K Dick
Deliverance by James Dickey
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Ragtime by EL Doctorow
An American Tragedy by Theodor Dreiser
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Light in August by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
A Passage to India by EM Forster
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Loving by Henry Green
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul
At-Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Man who Loved Children by Christina Stead
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Native Son by Richard Wright
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Waterstones Books of the Century

1 The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
2 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
3 Animal Farm by George Orwell
4 Ulysses by James Joyce
5 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
6 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
7 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
8 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
9 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
10 Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
11 Wild Swans by Jung Chang
12 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
13 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
14 On The Road by Jack Kerouac
15 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
16 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
17 Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
18 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
19 The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
20 The Stranger by Albert Camus
21 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis
22 The Trial by Franz Kafka
23 Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
24 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
25 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
26 The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
27 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
28 Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence
29 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
30 If this is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz) by Primo Levi
31 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
32 The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
33 In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
34 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
35 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
36 Beloved by Toni Morrison
37 Possession by AS Byatt
38 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
39 A Passage to India by EM Forster
40 Watership Down by Richard Adams
41 Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
42 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
43 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
44 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
45 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
46 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
47 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
48 Howards End by EM Forster
49 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
50 A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
51 Dune by Frank L Herbert
52 A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
53 Perfume by Patrick Süskind
54 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
55 Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
56 Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
57 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
58 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
59 A Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
60 The Magus by John Fowles
61 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
62 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
63 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
64 Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
65 The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
66 Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
67 Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
68 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
69 A Room with a View by EM Forster
70 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
71 It by Stephen King
72 The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
73 The Stand by Stephen King
74 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
75 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
76 Matilda by Roald Dahl
77 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
78 Fear and Loathing in las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
79 A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
80 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
81 Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
82 The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
83 Complete Cookery Course by Delia Smith
84 An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
85 The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
86 Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
87 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke
88 The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
89 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
90 Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
91 The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
92 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
93 The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
94 Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
95 High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
96 The Van by Roddy Doyle
97 The BFG by Roald Dahl
98 Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
99 I, Claudius by Robert Graves
100 The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans

TES Teachers' Top 100 Books

1 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3 Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
4 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
5 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
6 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
7 The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
8 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
9 The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
10 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
11 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
12 The Hunger Games (series) by Suzanne Collins
13 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
14 The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
15 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
16 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
17 His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
18 The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler
19 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
20 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
21 Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
22 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
23 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
24 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
25 Matilda by Roald Dahl
26 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
27 Millennium (series) by Stieg Larsson
28 Animal Farm by George Orwell
29 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
30 Persuasion by Jane Austen
31 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
32 Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
33 Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
34 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
35 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
36 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
37 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
38 One Day by David Nicholls
39 We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
40 The Twits by Roald Dahl
41 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
42 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
43 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
44 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
45 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
46 Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
47 George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
48 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
49 Room by Emma Donoghue
50 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
51 Atonement by Ian McEwan
52 Emma by Jane Austen
53 Middlemarch by George Eliot
54 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
55 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
56 The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
57 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
58 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
59 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
60 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
61 Charlotte's Web by EB White
62 Dracula by Bram Stoker
63 We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen & Helen Oxenbury
64 A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
65 The Secret History by Donna Tartt
66 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
67 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
68 The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
69 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
70 Skellig by David Almond
71 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
72 Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
73 Game of Thrones (series) by George RR Martin
74 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
75 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
76 Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
77 Twilight (series) by Stephenie Meyer
78 Beloved by Toni Morrison
79 The Help by Kathryn Stockett
80 The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
81 Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
82 Moneyball by Michael Lewis
83 My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
84 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
85 On The Road by Jack Kerouac
86 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
87 Wild Swans by Jung Chang
88 Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
89 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
90 Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler
91 Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
92 Noughts And Crosses by Malorie Blackman
93 Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
94 Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
95 Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
96 The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
97 The Witches by Roald Dahl
98 The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
99 Holes by Louis Sachar
100 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Harvard Book Store Top 100 Books

1 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
2 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3 Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
4 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
5 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
6 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
7 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
8 The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
9 The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
10 Beloved by Toni Morrison
11 Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
12 The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
13 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
14 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
15 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
16 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
17 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
18 Middlemarch by George Eliot
19 A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle
20 A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
21 Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion
22 If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
23 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
24 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
25 Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
26 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
27 The Dubliners by James Joyce
28 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
29 Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
30 White Noise by Don DeLillo
31 Mountains Beyond the Mountains by Tracy Kidder
32 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
33 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
34 His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
35 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
36 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
37 A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin
38 A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
39 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
40 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
41 The Histories by Herodotus Herodotus
42 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
43 A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
44 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
45 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
46 The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
47 Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
48 Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C Wrede
49 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
50 Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
51 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
52 Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by JD Salinger
53 Shadow & Claw by Gene Wolfe
54 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
55 Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
56 Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
57 Orlando by Virginia Woolf
58 Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
59 High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
60 Watership Down by Richard Adams
61 Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
62 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
63 The Stranger by Albert Camus
64 Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
65 The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
66 Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
67 The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
68 For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
69 Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley
70 Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
71 You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
72 Baudolino by Umberto Eco
73 Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me by Richard Farina
74 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
75 I, Claudius by Robert Graves
76 In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
77 Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
78 Little, Big by John Crowley
79 Popul Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life by Dennis Tedlock
80 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin
81 The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
82 The Razor's Edge by W Somerset Maugham
83 The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
84 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
85 The Bone People by Keri Hulme
86 Nine Stories by JD Salinger
87 Drown by Junot Díaz
88 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
89 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
90 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
91 The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
92 Odyssey by Homer Homer
93 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
94 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
95 A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
96 A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
97 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
98 Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
99 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
100 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman