A worldwide book club launched by the BBC World Service, where the world's best-known authors answer listeners' questions in front of a live audience.

2007
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Joseph Knight by James Robertson
Tales of City by Armistead Maupin
The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
What A Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

2006
Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers
Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
Holidays in Hell by PJ O'Rourke
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Hotel World by Ali Smith
Time to Depart by Lindsey Davis
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
Malignant Sadness by Lewis Wolpert

2005
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
Independence Day by Richard Ford
Small Island by Andrea Levy
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged  ¾ by Sue Townsend
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Dr Oliver Sacks
Blood Rain by Michael Dibden
Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier [Michele Roberts]
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
The Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

2004
Clinging to the Wreckage and Rumpole & the Younger Generation by John Mortimer
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Falling by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Nice Work by David Lodge
The Scold's Bridle by Minette Walters
Mort by Terry Pratchett
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
How the Dead Live by Will Self
Regeneration by Pat Barker
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy

2003
Writing Home by Alan Bennett
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
After Rain by William Trevor
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
Original Sin by PD James
Rebecca by Sally Beauman for Daphne du Maurier
The Tortilla Curtain by T Coraghessan Boyle
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
Down by the River by Edna O'Brien
Junk by Melvin Burgess
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd

2002
Knots and Crosses / The Falls by Ian Rankin
Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
Headlong by Michael Frayn
See Under Love by David Grossman
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson
Polo by Jilly Cooper

2001
Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
The Witch of Exmoor by Margaret Drabble
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
London Fields by Martin Amis
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
If I Don't Know, Serious Concerns, Making Cocoa by Wendy Cope for Kingsley Amis
Talking to the Dead by Helen Dunmore
About a Boy by Nick Hornby

2000
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
Larry's Party by Carol Shields
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
In the Springtime of the Year by Susan Hill
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor
Other People's Children by Joanna Trollope
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
The Miller's Tale/Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer
Waterland by Graham Swift

1999
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy / Honourable School Boy / Smiley's People by John Le Carre
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
Catch  by Joseph Heller
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Gutterson
Behind the Scenes At the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
Private Papers by Margaret Forster
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Longitude by Dava Sobel
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

1998
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Vanity Fair by William Thackery
Possession by AS Byatt