Scotlands Favourite Book 2016
BBC Scotland conducted a public vote throughout most of August 2016 in partnership with The Scottish Book Trust and The Scottish Library and Information Council. The 30 books on the longlist, comprised only of novels by authors born or based in Scotland, were selected by a panel of judges curated by Scottish Book Trust.
- 1
Sunset Song
Lewis Grassic Gibbon · 1933 · 3 lists
- 2
The Wasp Factory
Iain M. Banks · 1984 · 3 lists
- 3
Lanark
Alasdair Gray · 1981 · 4 lists
- 4
The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan · 1915 · 8 lists
- 5
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark · 1961 · 13 lists
- 6
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
J.K. Rowling · 1997 · 2 lists
- 7
Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh · 1993 · 3 lists
- 8
Knots & Crosses
Ian Rankin · 1999 · 1 list
- 9
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892 · 3 lists
- 10
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
James Hogg · 1824 · 3 lists
- 11
Laidlaw
William McIlvanney · 1977 · 1 list
- 12
Life after life
Kate Atkinson · 2013 · 6 lists
- 13
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886 · 8 lists
- 14
The Testament of Gideon Mack
James Robertson · 2006 · 1 list
- 15
The Wire in the Blood
Val McDermid · 1997 · 1 list
- 16
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Maggie O'Farrell · 2006 · 1 list
- 17
The Cone Gatherers
Robin Jenkins · 1983 · 1 list
- 18
The Trick is to Keep Breathing
Janice Galloway · 1989 · 2 lists
- 19
Morvern Callar
Alan Warner · 1995 · 2 lists
- 20
Under the Skin
Michel Faber · 2000 · 2 lists
- 21
Garnethill
Denise Mina · 1998 · 1 list
- 22
How Late It Was, How Late
James Kelman · 1994 · 2 lists
- 23
The Panopticon
Jenni Fagan · 2012 · 1 list
- 24
Trumpet
Jackie Kay · 1998 · 2 lists
- 25
- 26
Rob Roy
Sir Walter Scott · 1818 · 4 lists
- 27
The Cutting Room
Louise Welsh · 2002 · 1 list
- 28
The White Bird Passes
Jessie Kesson · 1992 · 1 list
- 29
So I Am Glad
A.L. Kennedy · 1 list
- 30
Imagined Corners
Willa Muir · 1931 · 1 list