Guardian 100 Best Books 21st Century

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

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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 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...

Sarah Waters / Fingersmith

Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her ‘family’ of unwanted babies turned artful dodgers in London, 1862. When one of Mrs...

Stieg Larsson / The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

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W.G. Sebald / Austerlitz

   In the summer of 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on one of the Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales. For reasons of their own, the...

Zoe Heller / Notes on a Scandal (Hardback)

  When the new teacher first arrives, Barbara immediately senses that this woman will be different from the rest of her staff-room colleagues. But Barbara is not the only one to feel that...