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...

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,...

Barbara Ehrenreich / Nickel and Dimed

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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...

Carlo Rovelli / Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

   THE PHENOMENAL BESTSELLER'There's a book I've been carrying around like a small Bible, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics' - Benedict Cumberbatch'With the publication of this...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / Half of a Yellow Sun

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Colm Toibin / Brooklyn

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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...

David Mitchell / Cloud Atlas (Hardback)

  A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's...

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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Elena Ferrante / My Brilliant Friend - Neapolitan Novels , Book 1

Soon to be an HBO series, book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy's...

Gillian Flynn / Gone Girl (Hardback)

  'What are you thinking, Amy? The question I've asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every...

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 (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...

Jennifer Egan / A Visit from the Goon Squad

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Jonathan Franzen / The Corrections

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Julian Barnes / Levels of Life (Hardback)

  'You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes' new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two...

Kate Atkinson / Life after Life

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Kate Atkinson / Life After Life (Hardback)

   What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her...

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...

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

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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Neil Gaiman / Coraline

 Sometimes funny, always creepy, genuinely moving, this marvellous spine-chiller will appeal to readers from nine to ninety." - "Books for Keeps". "I was looking forward to "Coraline", and I...

Richard Dawkins / The God Delusion

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Richard Dawkins / The God Delusion (Large Paperback)

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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 (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...

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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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...