Guardian 100 Best Books 21st Century

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...

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 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...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / Half of a Yellow Sun

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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...

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,...

Edward St Aubyn / Mother's Milk

The Melrose family is in peril. From young Robert, who provides an exceptionally droll account of being born, to Patrick, a hilariously churlish husband who has been sexually abandoned by his wife in...

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...

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

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...

Jennifer Egan / A Visit from the Goon Squad

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John Le Carre / The Constant Gardener

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Jonathan Franzen / The Corrections

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Jonathan Franzen / The Corrections (Hardback)

  This novel about the Lambert family brings an old-time America of industrialism and civic duty, of Cub Scouts, Christmas cookies and sexual inhibitions, into collision with the modern...

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...

Kazuo Ishiguro / Never Let Me Go (Hardback)

  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...

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...

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...

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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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...

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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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...

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...