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The Countdown 399 – 300

No 300. The Vet’s Daughter by Barbara Comyns

No 301. The Burnt Orange Heresy by Charles Willeford

No 302. The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith

No 303. The Glamour by Christopher Priest

No 304. Excursions in the Real World by William Trevor

No 305. The Omen by David Seltzer

No 306. Under Your Skin by Sabine Durrant

No 307. Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Michael Henry Heim

No 308. The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton

No 309. Nothing is Black by Deirdre Madden

No 310. Hotel World by Ali Smith

No 311. The Prestige by Christopher Priest

No 312. Old School by Tobias Wolff

No 313. An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge

No 314. Death in Summer by William Trevor

No 315. Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers

No 316. Family Sins by William Trevor

No 317. The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood

No 318. The Venice Train by Georges Simenon

No 319. The Singer’s Gun by Emily St John Mandel

No 320. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

No 321. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

No 322. Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle by Dervla Murphy

No 323. Quarantine by Jim Crace

No 324. The Birds & Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier

No 325. Nights at the Alexandra by William Trevor

No 326. The Other by Thomas Tryon

No 327. The Invention of Morel by Adolpho Bioy Casares, translated by Ruth L C Simms

No 328. The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor

No 329. A Literary Woman by Mary Beckett

No 330. Bad Day in Blackrock by Kevin Power

No 331. Hidden Symptoms by Deirdre Madden

No 332. The Book of Evidence by John Banville

No 333. The Love Department by William Trevor

No 334. Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones

No 335. The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau by Graeme Macrae Burnet

No 336. The Boarding House by William Trevor

No 337. The Blinded Man by Arne Dahl, translated by Tiina Nunelly

No 338. The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta

No 339. The Briefcase by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Allison Markin Powell

No 340. Twinkle Twinkle by Kaori Ekuni, translated by Emi Shimokawa

No 341. The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Elizabeth Rokkan

No 342. The Old Boys by William Trevor

No 343. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

No 344. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

No 345. Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel

No 346. You Were Never Really Here by Jonathan Ames

No 347. The Name of the World by Denis Johnson

No. 348. The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer

No 349. Springtime: A Ghost Story by Michelle De Krester

No 350. A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishigawa, translated by Risa Kobayashi & Martin Brown

No 351. Happy Are The Happy by Yasmina Reza, translated by John Cullen

No 352. So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighbourhood by Patrick Modiano, translated by Euan Cameron

No 353. The Front Seat Passenger by Pascal Garnier, translated by Jane Aitken

No 354. Reunion by Fred Uhlman

No 355. The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan

No 356. The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabakov

No 357. The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf, translated by Susan Bernofsky

No 358. The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson

No 359. The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike, translated by Deborah Boliver Boehm

No 360. The Auctioneer by Joan Samson

No 361. Veronica by Mary Gaitskill

No 362. The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith

No 363. The Tie That Binds by Kent Haruf

No 364. Breaking and Entering by Joy Williams

No 365. Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli, translated by Christina MacSweeney

No 366. Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

No 367. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

No 368. Party Monster by James St James

No 369. It’s Not Yet Dark by Simon Fitzmaurice

No 370. American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

No 371. In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut

No 372. The Missing by Andrew O’Hagan

No 373. The Hours by Michael Cunningham

No 374. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower

No 375. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

No 376. Crapalachia: A Biography of Place by Scott McClenahan

No 377. So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

No 378. Inhuman Resources by Pierre Lemaitre, translated by Sam Gordon

No 379. The Night of the Gun by David Carr

No 380. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

No 381. Messiah by Gore Vidal

No 382. The Dark Hole Days by Una Woods

No 383. The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor

No 384. The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark

No 385. The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am by Kjersti A. Skomsvold, translated by Kerri A. Pierce

No 386. Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, translated by Lois Roth

No 387. Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino, translated by Rebecca Copeland

No 388. Harbour by John Ajvide Lindqvist, translated by Marlaine Delargy

No 389. The Magician’s Wife by Brian Moore

No 390. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

No 391. Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden

No 392. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

No 393. Catholics by Brian Moore

No 394. Hotel Splendid by Marie Redonnet, translated by Jordan Stump

No 395. Dinner by Cesar Aira, translated by Katherine Silver

No 396. Hiroshima by James Hersey

No 397. The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff

No 398. White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

No 399. Lucinella by Lore Segal

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