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  Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

  Dec 2 2008:

  'I don't really like wine. Gin is for pansies, and liqueurs are best left to patent-shoed Wops'

• And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks by William S Burroughs and Jack Kerouac

  Nov 25 2008:

  Penguin, £20

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

  Nov 18 2008:

  Publisher: Allen Lane
  Price £16.99

• All in the Mind, by Alastair Campbell

  Nov 11 2008:

  Was writing down all he knew about mental illness really going to make an interesting book? wonders John Crace

• Folly by Alan Titchmarsh

  Nov 4 2008:

  John Crace's digested read: 'The real miracle,' Jamie said later, 'is that Alan Titchmarsh has written a book that makes Jeffrey Archer look talented'

• The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike

  Oct 28 2008:

  John Crace's digested read: 'Christopher had stopped using Daryll's electron machine to kill her; anything to end this book as fast as possible'

• Parky, My Autobiography by Michael Parkinson

  Oct 21 2008:

  John Crace: "People sometimes ask me who is the most remarkable person I've ever met apart from myself and I'm compelled to launch into paragraph after paragraph of unforgettable names..."

• Nigella Christmas by Nigella Lawson

  Oct 14 2008:

  Bubbles on their own can be crashingly dull, so how about livening them up with a bottle of Grand Marnier and some pomegranate?

• Stephen Fry in America by Stephen Fry

  Oct 7 2008:

  John Crace's digested read: 'New Jersey is very working-class, so that won't detain me long and I drive to Pennsylvania for a cup of Twinings'

• A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré

  Sep 30 2008:

  John Crace's digested read: Brue had a bad weekend, weighed down by the usual sexual humiliation inflicted on Le Carré's lonely leading men by their wives

• Indignation by Philip Roth

  Sep 23 2008:

  John Crace's digested read: 'This metafiction allows me to indulge my passion for discoursing on the horrors of death and goes some way to make you interested in my outcome'

• Attack of the caricatures

  Sep 16 2008:

  The Believers by Zoe Heller: Karla longed to escape her loveless marriage. Khalid said, 'I fancy you even though you're enormously fat. Shall we have an affair?'

• Digested reads

  Sep 10 2008:

  The six novels on the Booker prize shortlist get the digested treatment

• A Swim-on Part in the Goldfish Bowl by Carol Thatcher

  Sep 9 2008:

  John Crace's digested read: 'My parents were very focused on their work while we grew up but I was always content to be emotionally neglected'

• Silks by Dick Francis and Felix Francis

  Sep 2 2008:

  John Crace's digested read: I decided to become a barrister after someone pointed out that jockeys wore silk and barristers took silk so they were quite similar really

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