The Countdown 499 – 400
No 400. The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin
No 401. The Elementals by Michael McDowell
No 402. The Emperor of Ice-cream by Brian Moore
No 403. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
No 404. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
No 405. Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark
No 406. I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurđardóttir, translated by Philip Roughton
No 407. The Temptation of Eileen Hughes by Brian Moore
No 408. And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida
No 409. Fraud by Anita Brookner
No 410. Speedbumps by Teri Garr
No 411. The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
No 412. Like Life by Lorrie Moore
No 413. Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
No 414 A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin
No 415 Cold Water by Gwendoline Riley
No 416 The Thief by Fuminoro Nakamura, translated by Stephen Coates and Satoko Izumo
No 417. The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
No 418. Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre, translated by Frank Wynne
No 419 Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
No 420. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
No 421. Canal Dreams by Iain Banks
No 422. Double Indemnity by James M Cain
No 423. Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley
No 424. Earthy Possessions by Anne Tyler
No 425. The China Factory by Mary Costello
No 426. Dark Lies the Island by Kevin Barry
No 427. Standard Time by Keith Ridgway
No 428. Fergus by Brian Moore
No 429. The Barracks by John McGahern
No 430. Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood
No 431. Foster by Claire Keegan
No 432. Midnight Feast by Martina Evans
No 433. The Feast of Lupercal by Brian Moore
No 434. Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Michael Emmerich
No 435. The Box Man by Kobo Abe, translated by E Dale Saunders
No 436 Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh
No 437. Me & Kaminski by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Carol Brown Janeway
No 438. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
No 439. Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
No 440. Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
No 441. Lies of Silence by Brian Moore
No 442. Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
No 443. Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
No 444. After Dark by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin
No 445. You Are Not A Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
No 446. The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
No 447. Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
No 448. The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
No 449. Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow
No 450. Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico by Javier Marias, translated by Esther Allen
No 451. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
No 452. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
No 453. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, translated by David Luke
No 454. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
No 455. Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy, translated by Tim Parks
No 456. The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind, translated by John E Woods
No 457. The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine & Aviva Kana
No 458. Chess by Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell
No 459. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
No 460. Mostly Hero by Anna Burns
No 461. Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls
No 462. The Children of Men by PD James
No 463. The October Country by Ray Bradbury
No 464. The Bird’s Nest by Shirley Jackson
No 465. A Certain Smile by Francoise Sagan, translated by Irene Ash
No 466. A Sincere Warning About the Entity in Your Home by Jason Arnopp
No 467. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
No 468. One By One in the Darkness by Deirdre Madden
No 469. Audition by Ryu Murakami, translated by Ralph McCarthy
No 470. Kiss Me First by Lottie Moggach
No 471. Horses by Keith Ridgway
No 472. In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
No 473. Palladian by Elizabeth Taylor
No 474. The Prince of West End Avenue by Alan Isler
No 475. Larry’s Party by Carol Shields
No 476. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
No 477. Ghost Light by Joseph O’Connor
No 478. Cooked by Michael Pollen
No 479. The Trip to Echo Springs by Olivia Laing
No 480. Portia Coughlan by Marina Carr
No 481.Espedair Street by Iain Banks
No 482. Hotel by Arthur Hailey
No 483. Fred & Edie by Jill Dawson
No 484. What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
No 485. Fat Lad by Glenn Patterson
No 486. Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
No 487. The Last Girl by Jane Casey
No 488. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
No 489. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
No 490. The Diviner by Brian Friel
No 491. Dracula by Bram Stoker
No 492. Girls in their Married Bliss by Edna O’Brien
No 493. Tatty by Christine Dwyer Hickey
No 494. All the Beggars Riding by Lucy Caldwell
No 495. Ablutions by Patrick deWitt
No 496. Invisible by Paul Auster
No 497. Beside the Sea by Veronique Olmi, translated by Adriana Hunter
No 498. Ratman’s Notebooks by Stephen Gilbert
No 499. Ring by Koji Suzuki, translated by Robert B. Rohmer & Glynne Walley