This is a fantastic list.  I currently own 40 of these excellent titles.  Enjoy!

1998

3.5.98 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

7.6.98 Beloved - Toni Morrison

5.7.98 Fatherland - Robert Harris

2.8.98 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières

6.9.98 Wild Swans - Jung Chang

4.10.98 Angela’s Ashes - Frank McCourt

1.11.98 Vanity Fair - William Thackery

6.12.98 Possession - AS Byatt

1999

3.1.99 1,000 Acres - Jane Smiley

7.2.99 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy / Honourable School Boy / Smiley’s People - John Le Carre

7.3.99 Brazzaville Beach - William Boyd

4.4.99 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

2.5.99 Cat’s Eye - Margaret Atwood

6.6.99 Snow Falling on Cedars - David Gutterson

4.7.99 Behind the Scenes At the Museum - Kate Atkinson

1.8.99 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - JK Rowling

5.9.99 Private Papers - Margaret Forster

3.10.99 Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels

7.11.99 Longitude - Dava Sobel

5.12.99 Flaubert’s Parrot - Julian Barnes

2000

2.1.00 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

6.2.00 House of Spirits - Isabel Allende

5.3.00 Larry’s Party - Carol Shields

2.4.00 Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier

7.5.00 Northern Lights - Philip Pullman

4.6.00 In the Springtime of the Year - Susan Hill

2.7.00 Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai

6.8.00 Stalingrad - Anthony Beevor

3.9.00 Other People’s Children - Joanna Trollope

1.10.00 Enduring Love - Ian McEwan

22.10.00 The Miller’s Tale/Prologue - Geoffrey Chaucer

3.12.00 Waterland - Graham Swift

2001

7.1.01 Man and Boy - Tony Parsons

4.2.01 Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively

4.3.01 Touching the Void - Joe Simpson

1.4.01 The Witch of Exmoor - Margaret Drabble

6.5.01 The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy

3.6.01 The Shipping News - Annie Proulx

1.7.01 The Kitchen God’s Wife - Amy Tan

5.8.01 London Fields - Martin Amis

2.9.01 The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing

7.10.01 If I Don’t Know, Serious Concerns, Making Cocoa - Wendy Cope for Kingsley Amis

4.11.01 Talking to the Dead - Helen Dunmore

2.12.01 About a Boy - Nick Hornby

2002

6.1.02 Knots and Crosses / The Falls - Ian Rankin

3.2.02 Empire of the Sun - JG Ballard

3.3.02 Music and Silence - Rose Tremain

7.4.02 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

5.5.02 Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter - Mario Vargas Llosa

2.6.02 Headlong - Michael Frayn

7.7.02 See Under Love - David Grossman

4.8.02 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

1.9.02 From the Holy Mountain - William Dalrymple

6.10.02 A Dark-Adapted Eye - Barbara Vine

3.11.02 The Illustrated Mum - Jacqueline Wilson

1.12.02 Polo - Jilly Cooper

2003

5.1.03 Writing Home - Alan Bennett

2.2.03 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

2.3.03 After Rain - William Trevor

6.4.03 An Awfully Big Adventure - Beryl Bainbridge

4.5.03 Original Sin - PD James

1.6.03 Rebecca - Sally Beauman for Daphne du Maurier

6.7.03 The Tortilla Curtain - T Coraghessan Boyle

3.8.03 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire - Amanda Foreman

7.9.03 Down by the River - Edna O’Brien

5.10.03 Junk - Melvin Burgess

2.11.03 Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud

7.12.03 Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd

2004

4.1.04 Clinging to the Wreckage and Rumpole & the Younger Generation - John Mortimer

1.2.04 True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey

7.3.04 Fingersmith - Sarah Waters

4.4.04 Falling - Elizabeth Jane Howard

2.5.04 Nice Work - David Lodge

6.6.04 The Scold’s Bridle - Minette Walters

7.7.04 Mort - Terry Pratchett

1.8.04 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark

5.9.04 The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster

3.10.04 How the Dead Live - Will Self

7.11.04 Regeneration - Pat Barker

5.12.04 The World’s Wife - Carol Ann Duffy

2005

2.1.05 White Teeth - Zadie Smith

6.2.05 A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

6.3.05 The Hippopotamus - Stephen Fry

3.4.05 Independence Day - Richard Ford

1.5.05 Small Island - Andrea Levy

5.6.05 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾
- Sue Townsend

3.7.05 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- Dr Oliver Sacks

7.8.05 Blood Rain - Michael Dibden

4.9.05 Le Grand Meaulnes - Alain-Fournier
[Michèle Roberts was our guide]

2.10.05 The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi

6.11.05 The Gunpowder Plot - Antonia Fraser

4.12.05 We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates

2006

1.1.06 Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser

5.2.06 Holidays in Hell - P.J. O’Rourke

5.3.06 We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver

2.4.06 Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman

7.5.06 Hotel World - Ali Smith

4.6.06 Time to Depart - Lindsey Davis

2.7.06 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- John Berendt

6.8.06 Rum Punch - Elmore Leonard

3.9.06 English Passengers - Matthew Kneale

1.10.06 Old Filth - Jane Gardam

5.11.06 Malignant Sadness - Lewis Wolpert

3.12.06 Miss Garnet’s Angel - Salley Vickers

2007

7.1.07 The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen

4.2.07 The Mermaids Singing - Val McDermid

4.3.07 Eleanor of Aquitaine - Alison Weir

1.4.07 What A Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe

6.5.07 My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult

3.06.07 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

1.07.07 The Female Eunuch - Germaine Greer

5.08.07 The Remorseful Day - Colin Dexter

2.09.07 Tales of City - Armistead Maupin

7.10.07 Joseph Knight - James Robertson

4.11.07 The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

2.12.07 Schindler’s Ark - Thomas Keneally

2008

6.01.08 Alice Sebold -The Lovely Bones

3.02.08 The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant

2.03.08 William Pitt the Younger, A Biography - William Hague

6.04.08 Simon Armitage - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

4.05.08 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun

8.06.08 Jan Morris - Venice

6.07.08 ÅsneSeierstad - The Bookseller of Kabul

3.08.08 Colm Toibin - The Master

7.09.08 Gore Vidal - Point to Point Navigation

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