Guardian 100 Best Books 21st Century

Alan Hollinghurst / The Line of Beauty - Booker Prize Winner

It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory...

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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Andrew Solomon / The Noonday Demon

    Like Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, The Noonday Demon digs deep into personal history, as Andrew Solomon narrates, brilliantly and terrifyingly, his own agonising experience of...

Bob Dylan / Chronicles Volume 1

This is the first spellbinding volume of the three-volume memoir of one of the greatest musical legends of all time. In CHRONICLES Volume I, Bob Dylan takes us back to the early 1960s when he arrived...

Bob Dylan / Chronicles: v. 1 (Hardback)

 This is the first spellbinding volume of the autobiography of a musical and political icon. Circa 1965, arguably the high point of his creative genius, Bob Dylan writes on the beginnings of his...

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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Colson Whitehead / The Underground Railroad

 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR...

Cormac McCarthy / The Road

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Daniel Kahneman / Thinking Fast and Slow

The phenomenal New York Times Bestseller by Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow offers a whole new look at the way our minds work, and how we make decisions. Why is there more...

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,...

Elena Ferrante / My Brilliant Friend (Large Paperback) ( Neapolitan Novels - Book 1 )

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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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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...

Jonathan Franzen / The Corrections

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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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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 (Large Paperback)

  An introduction to the Tipping Point theory explains how minor changes in ideas and products can increase their popularity and how small adjustments in an individual's immediate environment...

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

  "The Tipping Point" is the biography of an idea, and the idea is quite simple: that many of the problems we face - from murder to teenage delinquency to traffic jams - behave like epidemics...

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...

Malorie Blackman / Noughts & Crosses ( Noughts and Crosses Series - Book 1)

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Marilynne Robinson / Gilead

In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. 'It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual...

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...

Mary Beard / Women and Power (Hardback)

 THE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER24 CONSECUTIVE WEEKS IN THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10Why the popular resonance of 'mansplaining' (despite the intense dislike of the term felt by many men)? It...

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...

Pat Barker / The Silence of the Girls : Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019

 A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century Shorlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the Gordon Burn Prize Booker-winning novelist Pat Barker imagines the untold...

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 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...

Sally Rooney / Normal People (Hardback)

 THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOKS AWARD 2018 (International Author)LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE...

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 (Large Paperback)

   WINNER OF 2016 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR'A violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making [and] the most fascinating line-by-line first person...

Stieg Larsson / The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

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Stieg Larsson / The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Hardback)

  Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle, Henrik,...

Zadie Smith / White Teeth

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Zoe Heller / Notes on a Scandal

  Schoolteacher Barbara Covett leads a solitary existence. When Sheba Hart joins St. George’s as the new art teacher, Barbara senses the possibility of a new friendship. But as Barbara...