Somerset Maugham Award Winners

1.
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3) 4.09 avg rating — 122,046 ratings
2.
Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim 3.75 avg rating — 31,466 ratings
3.
The Rachel Papers
The Rachel Papers 3.57 avg rating — 11,178 ratings
4.
The Last King of Scotland
The Last King of Scotland 3.79 avg rating — 4,309 ratings
5.
On Beauty
On Beauty 3.78 avg rating — 89,016 ratings
6.
A Good Man in Africa
A Good Man in Africa 3.86 avg rating — 5,552 ratings
7.
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things 3.89 avg rating — 10,997 ratings
8.
Pobby and Dingan
Pobby and Dingan
by: Ben Rice
3.87 avg rating — 2,132 ratings
9.
Metroland
Metroland 3.64 avg rating — 3,871 ratings
10.
Orkney
Orkney 3.49 avg rating — 1,185 ratings
11.
The Swimming-Pool Library
The Swimming-Pool Library 3.72 avg rating — 11,029 ratings
12.
Lemprière's Dictionary
Lemprière's Dictionary 3.68 avg rating — 1,244 ratings
12.
The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends
The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends 3.94 avg rating — 3,721 ratings
14.
I'm the King of the Castle
I'm the King of the Castle 3.49 avg rating — 3,648 ratings
15.
Householder
Householder 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
16.
The Impressionist
The Impressionist 3.62 avg rating — 3,195 ratings
17.
The Hawk in the Rain
The Hawk in the Rain 3.93 avg rating — 858 ratings
18.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde 3.85 avg rating — 698 ratings
19.
Death of a Naturalist
Death of a Naturalist 4.26 avg rating — 4,329 ratings
20.
The Lighthouse Stevensons
The Lighthouse Stevensons 3.98 avg rating — 722 ratings
21.
Miguel Street
Miguel Street 3.95 avg rating — 5,158 ratings
22.
Arcadia
Arcadia 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
23.
Flight Into Camden
Flight Into Camden 3.31 avg rating — 72 ratings
24.
Looking for the Possible Dance
Looking for the Possible Dance 3.43 avg rating — 247 ratings
24.
What Price Liberty!: How Freedom Was Won and Is Being Lost
What Price Liberty!: How Freedom Was Won and Is Being Lost 3.62 avg rating — 34 ratings
26.
The Paperchase
The Paperchase 3.15 avg rating — 393 ratings
27.
The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS
The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS 4.25 avg rating — 227 ratings
28.
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination 4.09 avg rating — 5,246 ratings
28.
The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing
The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
30.
Incendiary
Incendiary 3.62 avg rating — 13,861 ratings
30.
The Birds of the Innocent Wood
The Birds of the Innocent Wood 3.29 avg rating — 75 ratings
30.
The Cormorant
The Cormorant 3.54 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
33.
The Testimony of Taliesin Jones
The Testimony of Taliesin Jones 3.56 avg rating — 179 ratings
34.
At the Jerusalem
At the Jerusalem 3.41 avg rating — 94 ratings
35.
Affinity
Affinity 3.75 avg rating — 28,186 ratings
35.
Trawl
Trawl 3.55 avg rating — 199 ratings
37.
First Love, Last Rites
First Love, Last Rites 3.63 avg rating — 7,254 ratings
37.
The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians
The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians 4.04 avg rating — 255 ratings
39.
The Snow Geese
The Snow Geese 3.56 avg rating — 816 ratings
39.
Diving Belles
Diving Belles
by: Lucy Wood
3.50 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
41.
Physical
Physical 3.91 avg rating — 839 ratings
42.
Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer
Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer 4.01 avg rating — 198 ratings
43.
Kitchen Venom
Kitchen Venom 2.75 avg rating — 56 ratings
44.
The Tin Men
The Tin Men 3.51 avg rating — 359 ratings
45.
Once in a House on Fire
Once in a House on Fire 3.95 avg rating — 2,425 ratings
46.
Morvern Callar (Morvern Callar Cycle, #1)
Morvern Callar (Morvern Callar Cycle, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 4,600 ratings
47.
The Teleportation Accident
The Teleportation Accident 3.44 avg rating — 5,018 ratings
48.
The Dividing Stream
The Dividing Stream 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
49.
Lantern Lecture and Other Stories
Lantern Lecture and Other Stories 3.31 avg rating — 36 ratings
50.
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz 4.24 avg rating — 3,184 ratings
51.
Once Upon a Time in England
Once Upon a Time in England 3.71 avg rating — 285 ratings
52.
Mr Foreigner
Mr Foreigner 2.68 avg rating — 225 ratings
53.
The Raw Shark Texts
The Raw Shark Texts 3.83 avg rating — 21,315 ratings
54.
Several Perceptions
Several Perceptions 3.50 avg rating — 381 ratings
55.
Selling Manhattan
Selling Manhattan 3.52 avg rating — 164 ratings
56.
A State of Justice
A State of Justice 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
57.
The Healing Art
The Healing Art 3.47 avg rating — 49 ratings
58.
The Glass Delusion
The Glass Delusion 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
59.
Keepers of the House
Keepers of the House 3.63 avg rating — 158 ratings
60.
Dark Glasses
Dark Glasses 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
61.
The Indoor Park
The Indoor Park liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
62.
Monk Dawson
Monk Dawson 3.53 avg rating — 58 ratings
63.
Frontiers: From the Arctic to the Aegean
Frontiers: From the Arctic to the Aegean 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
64.
Tongues of Flame
Tongues of Flame
by: Tim Parks
3.60 avg rating — 94 ratings
65.
The Lamberts
The Lamberts 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
66.
The Automatic Man
The Automatic Man
by: Sam North
3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
67.
The Vision of Elena Silves
The Vision of Elena Silves 3.33 avg rating — 73 ratings
68.
Honour Thy Father
Honour Thy Father 3.99 avg rating — 347 ratings
69.
Other Lovers
Other Lovers 4.03 avg rating — 59 ratings
70.
The Country Life
The Country Life 3.74 avg rating — 2,224 ratings
71.
Talk of the Town
Talk of the Town 3.62 avg rating — 47 ratings
71.
Daughters of Jerusalem
Daughters of Jerusalem 3.40 avg rating — 415 ratings
73.
Skirrid Hill
Skirrid Hill 3.41 avg rating — 1,044 ratings
74.
The Distance Between Us
The Distance Between Us 3.69 avg rating — 13,571 ratings
75.
The Amnesia Clinic
The Amnesia Clinic 3.61 avg rating — 290 ratings
76.
On Purpose
On Purpose 3.61 avg rating — 98 ratings
77.
The Broken Word
The Broken Word 2.97 avg rating — 304 ratings
78.
White Is for Witching
White Is for Witching 3.54 avg rating — 12,887 ratings
79.
Miss Herbert
Miss Herbert 3.98 avg rating — 140 ratings
80.
Joshua Spassky
Joshua Spassky 3.42 avg rating — 130 ratings
81.
Passing Under Heaven
Passing Under Heaven 3.52 avg rating — 149 ratings
82.
Two Kinds of Silence
Two Kinds of Silence 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
83.
Leadville: A Biography of the A40
Leadville: A Biography of the A40 3.77 avg rating — 52 ratings
84.
Slattern
Slattern 3.82 avg rating — 40 ratings
85.
Truffle Beds
Truffle Beds 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
86.
The Queen of Sheba
The Queen of Sheba 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
87.
Out of the Rain
Out of the Rain really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
88.
Bucket of Tongues
Bucket of Tongues 3.62 avg rating — 96 ratings
89.
Jella. Allein unter Männern auf dem Schiff von Lagos nach Liverpool.
Jella. Allein unter Männern auf dem Schiff von Lagos nach Liverpool. 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
90.
Four Bare Legs in a Bed
Four Bare Legs in a Bed 3.55 avg rating — 132 ratings
91.
The Other Occupant
The Other Occupant 3.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
92.
The Squirrels Are Dead
The Squirrels Are Dead 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
93.
In the Flesh
In the Flesh 3.67 avg rating — 49 ratings
94.
Isaac Campion
Isaac Campion 3.81 avg rating — 67 ratings
95.
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper 4.15 avg rating — 207 ratings
96.
Bring Home the Revolution
Bring Home the Revolution 3.69 avg rating — 55 ratings
97.
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English 3.71 avg rating — 540 ratings
98.
The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water
The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water 3.71 avg rating — 684 ratings
99.
The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You
The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You 3.64 avg rating — 44 ratings
100.
Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons from the Tokyo Riot Police
Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons from the Tokyo Riot Police 3.98 avg rating — 1,688 ratings
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