Guardian 100 Best Books 21st Century

Alan Hollinghurst / The Line of Beauty (Hardback)

 In the summer of 1983, 20-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Tory MP Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby - whom Nick...

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...

Andrea Levy / Small Island

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Anne Enright / The Green Road

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Anne Enright / The Green Road (Hardback)

  From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and...

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 Demick / Nothing To Envy : Real Lives In North Korea

 WINNER OF THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2010A spectacularly revealing and harrowing portrait of ordinary lives in the world's least ordinary country, North KoreaNorth Korea is...

Barbara Ehrenreich / Nickel and Dimed

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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...

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...

George Saunders / Tenth of December

With an introduction from the New York Times by Joel Lovell George Saunders' most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures...

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...

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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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

  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...

Lorna Sage / Bad Blood

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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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Margaret Atwood / Oryx And Crake ( MaddAddam Trilogy Book 1 )

Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The...

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...

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...

Michael Lewis / Moneyball (Large Paperback)

  Just before the 2002 season opens, the Oakland Athletics must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players and is written off by just about everyone-but then comes roaring back...

Naomi Klein / The Shock Doctrine

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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...

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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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 Gies Greenfield) (Strapline: Bloomsbury)

 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...

Rowling, J.K / Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Hardback) (Cover Illustration Gies Greenfield) (Strapline: Bloomsbury)

 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 (Wrong Name Typo page 503) (First Edition Hardback) (Cover Illustration Gies Greenfield)

  A YOUNG fan of the Harry Potter books has alerted the publishers to an error in J K Rowling's latest story. Laila Banjar, nine, noticed that in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of...

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...

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...