The Countdown 599 – 500
500. Swann by Carol Shields
501. Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
502. American Scream by Cynthia True
503. Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Susan Bernofsky
504. Dino by Nick Tosches
505. Zone One by Colson Whitehead
506. The Moon’s A Balloon by David Niven
507. Now You’re One Of Us by Asa Nonami, translated by Michael & Mitsuko Volek
508. Hell House by Richard Matheson
509. Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
510. Amongst Women by John McGahern
511. The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
512. Night Waking by Sarah Moss
513. Clear: A Transparent Novel by Nicola Barker
514. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
515. The International by Glenn Patterson
516. The Inheritance of Loss by Kirin Desai
517. Fame by Daniel Kehlmann
518. Carol by Patricia Highsmith
519. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
520. Hotel California by Barney Hoskyns
521. Blackeyes by Dennis Potter
522. Truth or Fiction by Jennifer Johnston
523. Carry Me Down by MJ Hyland
524. Justice by Dominick Dunne
525. Secrets and Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty
526. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
527. A Number by Caryl Churchill
528. The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina
529. The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier
530. Are You Somebody? by Nuala O’Faolain
531. White Noise by Don deLillo
532. A Goat’s Song by Dermot Healy
533. My Life As a Fake by Peter Carey
534. Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
535. Maeve Brennan: Wit, Style and Tragedy by Angela Bourke
536. After Rain by William Trevor
537. Happiness by Mary Lavin
538. The Ante-Room by Kate O’Brien
539. I Am Mary Dunne by Brian Moore
540. Girl With Green Eyes by Edna O’Brien
541. The Song is You by Megan Abbott
542. Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
543. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
544. Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
545. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
546. The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals by Elizabeth Smart
547. Animals by Keith Ridgway
548. The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen
549. Twilight by William Gay
550. Occupied City by David Peace
551. Northline by Willy Vlautin
552. The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
553. Ice by Anna Kavan
554. Player One by Douglas Coupland
555. Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
556. Life A User’s Manual by Georges Perec
557. A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
558. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
559. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
560. A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
561. Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
562. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
563. The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
564. Inside the Dream Palace by Sheryl Tippins
565. The Search by Geoff Dyer
566. Bad Behaviour by Mary Gaitskill
567. People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry
568. The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty
569. Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
570. Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino
571. The Cure by Carlo Gebler
572. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
573. A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
574. This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann
575. The Maiden Dinosaur by Janet McNeill
576. The Light of Amsterdam by David Park
577. What You See in the Dark by Manuel Munoz
578. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
579. The Sorrows of An American by Siri Hustvedt
580. The Way Home by George Pelecanos
581. Duplicate Keys by Jane Smiley
582. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
583. No One Belongs Here More than You by Miranda July
584. The Sundance Kids by James Mottram
585. Dead Stars by Bruce Wagner
586. Gig by Simon Armitage
587. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
588. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
589. The Blue Tango by Eoin McNamee
590. The Hunters by Claire Messud
591. The Bat by Jo Nesbo
592. The Grass Harp by Truman Capote
593. The Butterfly Cabinet by Bernie McGill
594. The Miracle Shed by Philip MacCann
595. The Reckoning by Jane Casey
596. All Names Have Been Changed by Claire Kilroy
597. Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
598. Born Yesterday: The News as Novel by Gordon Burn
599. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri