Here is the reading list agreed for early 2009:

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
• Cloud Atlas by David Mtichell
• Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka
• Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
• Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
• Never let me go by Kazou Ishigoru

Late recommendations which are under consideration are:

• An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• Silk by Alessandro Baricco