“The 100 Best Scottish Books of All Time”

 

(2005 promotion in association with Orange and The List)

 

A Concussed History of Scotland                                                         Frank Kupper  (OP)

A Day at the Office                                                                               Robert Alan Jamieson

A Disaffection                                                                                       James Kelman

A Sense of Freedom                                                                             Jimmy Boyle

A Twelve-Month and a Day                                                                 Christopher Rush

A Voyage to Arcturus                                                                           David Lindsay

Adam Blair                                                                                           John Gibson Lockhart

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding                                      David Hume

An Oidhche Mus Do Sheol Sinn                                                           Aonghas Padraig Caimbeul

Annals of the Parish                                                                              John Galt

Behind the Scenes at the Museum                                                         Kate Atkinson

Black and Blue                                                                                     Ian Rankin

Born Free                                                                                             Laura Hird

Brond                                                                                                   Frederick Lindsay         (OP)

Buddha Da                                                                                           Anne Donovan

But n Ben a-Go-Go                                                                              Matthew Fitt

Children of the Dead End                                                                      Patrick McGill

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater                                                 Thomas de Quincey

Consider the Lilies                                                                                Ian Crichton Smith

Docherty                                                                                              William McIlvanney

Electric Brae                                                                                         Andrew Grieg

Flemington                                                                                            Violet Jacob

For the Love of Willie                                                                           Agnes Owens

From Russia, with love                                                                          Ian Fleming

Garnethill                                                                                              Denise Mina

Grace Notes                                                                                         Bernard MacLaverty

Greenvoe                                                                                             George Mackay Brown

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone                                              J K Rowling

Heart of Darkness                                                                                Joseph Conrad

Hotel World                                                                                         Ali Smith

Humphry Clinker                                                                                  Tobias Smollett

Imagined Corners                                                                                 Willa Muir (OP)

Jelly Roll                                                                                               Luke Sutherland

Jericho Sleep Alone                                                                              Chaim Bermant (OP)

Joseph Knight                                                                                       James Robertson

Lanark                                                                                                 Alasdair Gray

Lilith                                                                                                     George Macdonald (OP)

Living Nowhere                                                                                    John Burnside

Madame Doubtfire                                                                               Anne Fine

Me and ma Gal                                                                                     Des Dillon

Miss Majoribanks                                                                                 Margaret (Mrs) Oliphant

Morvern Callar                                                                                     Alan Warner

Mr Alfred M.A.                                                                                    George Friel

Nineteen Eighty-Four                                                                            George Orwell

No Mean City                                                                                      A. McArthur & H. Kingsley Long

One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night                                               Christopher Brookmyre

Open the Door                                                                                     Catherine Carswell

Our Fathers                                                                                          Andrew O’Hagan

Paradise                                                                                               A L Kennedy

Psychoraag                                                                                           Suhayl Saadi

Rob Roy                                                                                              Walter Scott

Sartor Restartus                                                                                    Thomas Carlyle

Scar Culture                                                                                         Toni Davidson

Sunset Song                                                                                         Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Swing, Hammer, Swing!                                                                       Jeff Torrington

The Break-up of Britain                                                                        Tom Nairn (OP)

The Bull Calves                                                                                    Naomi Mitchison

The Citadel                                                                                           A J Cronin

The Cone Gatherers                                                                             Robin Jenkins

The Coral Island                                                                                   R M Ballantyne

The Cutting Room                                                                                Louise Welsh

The Dear Green Place                                                                          Archie Hind

The Divided Self                                                                                   R D Laing

The Game of Kings                                                                               Dorothy Dunnett

The Golden Bough                                                                                James Frazer

The Gowk Storm                                                                                  Nancy Brysson Morrison

The Guns of Navarone                                                                          Alastair MacLean

The Highland Clearances                                                                      John Prebble

The Hound of the Baskervilles                                                               Arthur Conan Doyle

The House with the Green Shutters                                                       George Douglas Brown

The King James Bible

The Lantern Bearers                                                                             Ronald Frame

The Life of Samuel Johnson                                                                  James Boswell

The Lighthouse Stevensons                                                                   Bella Bathurst

The Magic Flute                                                                                   Alan Spence

The New Road                                                                                     Neil Munro

The New Testament in Scots

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency                                                      Alexander McCall Smith

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie                                                             Muriel Spark

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner                    James Hogg

The Quarry Wood                                                                                Nan Shepherd (OP)

The Sea Road                                                                                      Margaret Elphinstone

The Shipbuilders                                                                                   George Blake

The Siege of Trencher’s Farm                                                               Gordon Williams

The Silver Darlings                                                                                Neil M. Gunn

The Sound of My Voice                                                                       Ron Butlin

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde                                         Robert Louis Stevenson

The Thirty-nine Steps                                                                            John Buchan

The Trick is to Keep Breathing                                                             Janice Galloway

The Wasp Factory                                                                                Iain Banks

The Wealth of Nations                                                                          Adam Smith

The White Bird Passes                                                                          Jessie Kesson

The Wind in the Willows                                                                       Kenneth Grahame

To the Lighthouse                                                                                 Virginia Woolf

Trainspotting                                                                                         Irvine Welsh

Trumpet                                                                                               Jackie Kay

Tunes of Glory                                                                                      James Kennaway

Under the Skin                                                                                     Michel Faber

Whisky Galore                                                                                     Compton MacKenzie

Young Adam                                                                                        Alexander Trocchi