As part of the BBC #LovetoRead campaign, an expert panel has chosen 30 books from Scottish authors, representing some of the finest writing Scotland has to offer.
“This is a list that will get people talking and reading. There is such a vast range of good writing in Scotland that choosing which books to include was incredibly difficult. I am really looking forward to seeing how the public will vote.” Pauline Law, Executive Producer commented.
Law explained that the definition of a Scottish book for this vote is a novel by an author born or based in Scotland adding that the top ten books will be revealed in a special BBC Two Scotland programme which will broadcast in October.

Voting is online only from August 1st to August 26th

LIST OF SELECTED NOVELS
1 An Oidhche Mus Do Sheol Sinn (The Night Before We Sailed). Angus Peter Campbell
2 Garnethill. Denise Mina
3 Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone. J.K. Rowling
4 How Late It Was, How Late. James Kelman
5 Imagined Corners. Willa Muir
6 Knots and Crosses. Ian Rankin
7 Laidlaw. William McIlvanney
8 Lanark: A Life in Four Books. Alasdair Gray
9 Life After Life. Kate Atkinson
10 Morvern Callar. Alan Warner
11 Rob Roy. Sir Walter Scott
12 So I Am Glad. A.L. Kennedy
13 Sunset Song. Lewis Grassic Gibbon
14 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle
15 The Cone-Gatherers. Robin Jenkins
16 The Cutting Room. Louise Welsh
17 The Panopticon. Jenni Fagan
18 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Muriel Spark
19 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. James Hogg
20 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Robert Louis Stevenson
21 The Testament of Gideon Mack. James Robertson
22 The Thirty-Nine Steps. John Buchan
23 The Trick is to Keep Breathing. Janice Galloway
24 The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox. Maggie O’Farrell
25 The Wasp Factory. Iain Banks
26 The White Bird Passes. Jessie Kesson
27 Trainspotting. Irvine Welsh
28 Trumpet. Jackie Kay
29 Under the Skin. Michel Faber
30 Wire in the Blood. Val McDermid