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...

Barbara Ehrenreich / Nickel and Dimed

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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...

Colm Toibin / Brooklyn

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Colm Toibin / Brooklyn (Large Paperback)

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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,...

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...

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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John Le Carre / The Constant Gardener

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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...

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

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Naomi Klein / The Shock Doctrine

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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...

Richard Dawkins / The God Delusion

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Richard Dawkins / The God Delusion (Large Paperback)

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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 (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...

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...