Guardian 100 Best Books 21st Century

Alan Hollinghurst / The Line of Beauty (Hardback)

 In the summer of 1983, 20-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Tory MP Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby - whom Nick...

Ali Smith / Autumn

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'In a country apparently divided against itself, a writer such as Smith is more valuable than a whole parliament of...

Andrea Levy / Small Island

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Anne Enright / The Green Road

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Anne Enright / The Green Road (Hardback)

  From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and...

Anne Enright / The Green Road (Large Paperback)

Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award. Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. A darkly glinting novel set on Ireland's Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and family,...

Colm Tóibín / Brooklyn

“Deceptively simple in its execution, this quiet humble novel transports readers to a bygone era just after the Second World War. From the sheltered village life of 1950s Ireland to the...

Colm Toibin / Brooklyn (Large Paperback)

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David Mitchell / Cloud Atlas

  In a bold and unconventionally structured work, David Mitchell combines the stories of six individuals.   The morality and ambitions of a reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in...

Edmund De Waal / The Hare with Amber Eyes : A Hidden Inheritance

264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later,...

Gillian Flynn / Gone Girl

THE ADDICTIVE No.1 BESTSELLER AND INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON OVER 20 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE THE BOOK THAT DEFINES PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are...

Helen Dunmore / The Siege

Leningrad, September 1941. German tanks surround the city, imprisoning those who live there. The besieged people of Leningrad face shells, starvation, and the Russian winter. Interweaving two love...

Hilary Mantel / Wolf Hall - Booker Prize Winner 2009

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry...

Ian McEwan / Atonement

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her...

Ian McEwan / Atonement (Hardback)

 On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house...

Jeanette Winterson / Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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Jennifer Egan / A Visit from the Goon Squad

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Jim Crace / Harvest

 Winner of the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the 2014 James Tait Black PrizeShortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the 2013 Goldsmiths...

John Le Carre / The Constant Gardener

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Jonathan Franzen / The Corrections

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Julian Barnes / Levels of Life

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed…In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer; he...

Karl Ove Knausgaard / A Death in the Family : My Struggle Book 1

   It's unbelievable... It's completely blown my mind' Zadie Smith Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with painful honesty. He writes about his childhood and teenage years, his...

Kate Atkinson / Life after Life

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Kate Atkinson / Life After Life (Large Paperback)

  What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first...

Kazuo Ishiguro / Never Let Me Go

  Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham – an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children were sheltered entirely from the outside world and...

Kazuo Ishiguro / Never Let Me Go (Large Paperback)

 Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham - an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought up...

Malcolm Gladwell / The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour cross a threshold, tip and spread like...

Mark Haddon / The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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Mark Haddon / The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time (Hardback)

 Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand...

Michael Chabon / The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic...

Philip Pullman / The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials - Book 3 )

There are worldsBeyond our own –The CompassWill show the way The third novel in Philip Pullman's epic' His Dark Materialstrilogy. The terrible war foretold by the witches is coming...

Philip Roth / The Plot Against America

'A dark, humane masterpiece' The TimesWhen the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election,...

Philip Roth / The Plot Against America (Hardback)

   When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish...

Rebecca Skloot / The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Richard Dawkins / The God Delusion

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Richard Dawkins / The God Delusion (Large Paperback)

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Rowling, J.K / Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Cover Illustration Clare Melinsky)

 The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and there are spells to be...

Rowling, J.K / Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Cover Illustration Gies Greenfield) (Strapline: Bloomsbury)

 The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and there are spells to be...

Rowling, J.K / Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Cover Illustration Jonny Duddle)

 The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter - but that doesn't stop Harry dreaming that he will win the competition. Then at...

Rowling, J.K / Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Hardback) (Cover Illustration Gies Greenfield) (Strapline: Bloomsbury)

 The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and there are spells to be...

Sally Rooney / Normal People

 THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES AND TOP FIVE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC ONE DRAMA ADAPTATION CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTIONWINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS...

Sebastian Barry / Days Without End

 Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the YearWinner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize...

Sebastian Barry / Days without End (Hardback)

  "A beautiful, savage, tender, searing work of art. Sentence after perfect sentence it grips and does not let go." (Donal Ryan). "A violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping...

Stieg Larsson / The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

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Yuval Noah Harari / Sapiens : A Brief History of Humankind

 The global phenomenon. The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller. The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among...