Read the review, A thrilling, genre-bending tale of escape from slavery in the American deep south, this Pulitzer prize-winner combines extraordinary prose and uncomfortable truths. 263,568 ratings But Amis also has much fun recollecting his velvet-suited, snakeskin-booted youth, and paints a moving portrait of his fathers comic gusto as old age reduces him to a kind of anti-Kingsley. Barnes divides the book into three parts with disparate themes 19th-century ballooning, photography and marriage. Paranoid yet plausible, Roths alternative-world novel is only more relevant in the age of Trump. Read the review, The fourth of the autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels finds the wealthy protagonist whose flight from atrocious memories of child abuse into drug abuse was the focus of the first books beginning to grope after redemption. Fans are still waiting for volume two. Read the review, If the western literary canon is founded on Homer, then it is founded on womens silence. Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read recommended book list published in 2009. Haddons fascinating portrayal of an unconventional mind was a crossover hit with both adults and children and was adapted into a very successful stage play. published 2000, avg rating 3.91 The result is both sharp and dreamy, sliding in and out of different phases of Dylans career but rooted in his earliest days as a Woody Guthrie wannabe in New York City. The story, told in fragments, is of Nelsons pregnancy, which unfolds at the same time as her partner, the artist Harry Dodge, is beginning testosterone injections: the summer of our changing bodies. Read the review, A key text in the days when the New Atheism was much talked about, The God Delusion is a hard-hitting attack on religion, full of Dawkinss confidence that faith produces fanatics and all arguments for God are ridiculous. Confiding and self-deprecating, she has a way of always managing to sound like your best friend even when writing about her apartment on New Yorks Upper West Side. Error rating book. The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read" The complete list can be found here: "http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction Please do NOT add books to this list which are not listed on the above link! Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Page 2 show list info. published 1977, avg rating 4.37 made by Scott avg. What the evolutionary biologist lacks in philosophical sophistication, he makes up for in passion, and the book sold in huge numbers. Read the review, Based on Beards lectures on womens voices and how they have been silenced, Women and Power was an enormous publishing success in the #MeToo year 2017. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett Queen Lucia by EF Benson The Ascent of Rum Doodle by WE Bowman A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd The History Man. score: 82 of 1000 (8%) required scores: 1, 32, 51, 77, 119 list stats leaders vote print comments How many have you read? BBC Believes You've Only Read 6 of These Books. published 1932, avg rating 3.77 242,904 ratings The Guardian Kindle Edition by Nicholas Sparks (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 6,603 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle $8.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook $0.00 Free with your Audible trial avg rating 4.01 published 1991, avg rating 4.20 The Triwizard Tournament provides pace and tension, and Rowling makes her boy wizard look death in the eye for the first time.Read the review, This operatically harrowing American gay melodrama became an unlikely bestseller, and one of the most divisive novels of the century so far. Read the review, The master of the cold war thriller turned his attention to the new world order in this chilling investigation into the corruption powering big pharma in Africa. On their farm outside Pretoria, the Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. Read the review, The epic that made Mitchells name is a Russian doll of a book, nesting stories within stories and spanning centuries and genres with aplomb. published 1951, avg rating 3.91 338,583 ratings Crime, thrillers & mysteries General & literary fiction Graphic novels Romance Poetry Horror Short stories View all fiction Non-fiction Non-fiction Art, architecture & photography Biographies Business, economics & law Food & drink Health & lifestyle History Politics, philosophy & culture Science & nature Sports View all non-fiction Children's published 1954, avg rating 3.87 An unforgettable book, which is both an act of catharsis and a profound demonstration of empathy. 60,792 ratings published 1865, avg rating 4.10 To order any of these titles go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. This 2005 tragedy caught the attention of one of Australias greatest living writers. Read the review, The author of The Big Short has made a career out of rendering the most opaque subject matter entertaining and comprehensible: Moneyball tells the story of how geeks outsmarted jocks to revolutionise baseball using maths. Whether or not you regard him as the Proust of memoir, his compulsive honesty created a new benchmark for autofiction. More Most read across the Guardian Most read in Opinion A white lens sees Harry and Meghan as villains - through a Black one, they've done Britain a favour Nels Abbey Martin Rowson on. published 1920, avg rating 3.73 41,131 ratings Having grown up the son of a former Black Panther on the violent streets of Baltimore, he has a voice that is challenging but also poetic. 86,643 ratings 4,286 ratings Read the review, An electrifying memoir that captured a moment in thinking about gender, and also changed the world of books. An exploration of misogyny, the origins of gendered speech in the classical era and the problems the male world has with strong women, this slim manifesto became an instant feminist classic. 44,659 ratings Some readers wept all night, some condemned it as titillating and exploitative, but no one could deny its power.Read the review, Dylans reticence about his personal life is a central part of the singer-songwriters brand, so the gaps and omissions in this memoir come as no surprise. Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee in The Road, based on Cormac McCarthys novel. ', Read an interview with the author of our No 1 book. Read the review, The American cartoonists darkly humorous memoir tells the story of how her closeted gay father killed himself a few months after she came out as a lesbian. Flynns stylishly written portrait of a toxic marriage set against a backdrop of social and economic insecurity combines psychological depth with sheer unputdownable flair.Read the review, Written after a near-fatal accident, this combination of memoir and masterclass by fictions most successful modern storyteller showcases the blunt, casual brilliance of King at his best. Messenger (Author) 1,835 ratings Book 1 of 4: The Guardian Series Teachers' pick See all formats and editions Kindle $0.00 Read with Kindle Unlimited to also enjoy access to over 3 million more titles $0.99 to buy Paperback $7.99 22 Used from $1.98 2 New from $7.99 Rovellis keen insight and striking metaphors make this the best introduction to subjects including relativity, quantum mechanics, cosmology, elementary particles and entropy outside of a course in advanced physics. 7,145 ratings All titles cross-referenced with other awards, prizes, and best-of lists. No character acts as at first expected in Munros stories, which are attuned to the tiniest shifts in perception. With shades of Patricia Highsmith, this teasing investigation into sex, class and loneliness is a dark marvel.Read the review, The Spanish master examines chance, love and death in the story of an apparently random killing that gradually reveals hidden depths. Thatcher-era degeneracy is lavishly displayed as Nick falls in love with the son of a supermarket magnate, and the novel records how Aids began to poison gay life in London. published 1955, avg rating 3.98 NK Jemisin explores urgent questions of power in The Fifth Season. 22,843 ratings 2,565,479 100 The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge. 5,370 ratings Robinsons meditative, deeply philosophical novel is told through letters written by elderly preacher John Ames in the 1950s to his young son who, when he finally reaches an adulthood his father wont see, will at least have this posthumous one-sided conversation: While you read this, I am imperishable, somehow more alive than I have ever been. This is a book about legacy, a record of a pocket of America that will never return, a reminder of the heartbreaking, ephemeral beauty that can be found in everyday life. morning, Available for everyone, funded by readers. published 1974, avg rating 3.64 The fates of three young people are altered by a young girls lie at the close of a sweltering day on a country estate in 1935. In this riotous memoir, Satrapi focuses on one young life to reveal a hidden history. published 1977, avg rating 4.07 North Korea is revealed to be rife with poverty, corruption and violence but populated by resilient people with a remarkable ability to see past the propaganda all around them. Animal Farm by George Orwell Claudia Rankine confronts the history of racism in the US. morning, Available for everyone, funded by readers. Read the review, A Whitbread prizewinning memoir, full of perfectly chosen phrases,that is one of the best accounts of family dysfunction ever written.Sage grew up with her grandparents, who hated each other: he was a drunken philandering vicar; his wife, having found his diaries,blackmailed him and lived in another part of the house. by Dorothy L SayersMurder Must Advertise by Dorothy Le SayersThe Madman of Bergerac by Georges SimenonThe Blue Room by Georges SimenonThe Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per WahlooGorky Park by Martin Cruz SmithOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe League of Frightened Men by Rex StoutPerfume by Patrick SuskindThe Secret History by Donna TarttThe Daughter of Time by Josephine TeyThe Getaway by Jim ThompsonPuddnhead Wilson by Mark TwainA Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara VineA Fatal inversion by Barbara VineKing Solomons Carpet by Barbara VineThe Four Just Men by Edgar WallaceFingersmith by Sarah Waters Native Son by Richard WrightTherese Raquin by Emile Zola, The Face of Another by Kobo AbeLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottBehind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate AtkinsonCats Eye by Margaret AtwoodEpileptic by David BRoom Temperature by Nicholson BakerEugenie Grandet by Honore de BalzacLe Pere Goriot by Honore de BalzacThe Crow Road by Iain BanksThe L Shaped Room by Lynne Reid BanksFun Home by Alison BechdelMalone Dies by Samuel BeckettA Legacy by Sybille BedfordHerzog by Saul BellowHumboldts Gift by Saul BellowThe Old Wives Tale by Arnold BennettG by John BergerExtinction by Thomas BernhardTwo Serious Ladies by Jane BowlesAny Human Heart by William BoydThe Death of Virgil by Hermann BrochEvelina by Fanny BurneyThe Way of All Flesh by Samuel ButlerThe Sound of my Voice by Ron ButlinThe Outsider by Albert CamusWise Children by Angela CarterThe Professors House by Willa CatherThe Wapshot Chronicle by John CheeverThe Awakening by Kate ChopinLes Enfants Terrible by Jean CocteauThe Vagabond by Sidonie-Gabrielle ColetteManservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-BurnettBeing Dead by Jim CraceQuarantine by Jim CraceThe Mandarins by Simone de BeauvoirRoxana by Daniel DefoeGreat Expectations by Charles DickensThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyMy New York Diary by Julie DoucetThe Millstone by Margaret DrabbleMy Family and Other Animals by Gerald DurrellSilence by Shusaku EndoThe Gathering by Anne EnrightMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Sportswriter by Richard FordHowards End by EM ForsterSpies by Michael FraynHideous Kinky by Esther FreudThe Man of Property by John GalsworthyMary Barton by Elizabeth GaskellThe Immoralist by Andre GideThe Vatican Cellars by Andre GideThe Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver GoldsmithThe Power and the Glory by Graham GreeneHunger by Knut HamsunThe Shrimp and the Anemone by LP HartleyThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwaySteppenwolf by Herman HesseNarziss and Goldmund by Hermann HesseThe Three Paradoxes by Paul HornschemeierTom Browns Schooldays by Thomas HughesA Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingThe Ambassadors by Henry JamesWashington Square by Henry JamesThe Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth JenkinsThe Unfortunates by BS JohnsonA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceUlysses by James JoyceGood Behaviour by Molly KeaneMemet my Hawk by Yasar KemalOne Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken KeseyThe Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif KureishiSons and Lovers by DH LawrenceCider with Rosie by Laurie LeeInvitation to the Waltz by Rosamond LehmannThe Golden Notebook by Doris LessingHow Green was My Valley by Richard LlewellynMartin Eden by Jack LondonUnder the Volcano by Malcolm LowryThe Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullersPalace Walk by Naguib MahfouzThe Assistant by Bernard MalamudBuddenbrooks by Thomas MannThe Chateau by William MaxwellThe Rectors Daughter by FM Mayor The Ordeal of Richard Feverek by George MeredithFamily Matters by Rohinton MistrySour Sweet by Timothy MoThe Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian MooreThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonWho Do You Think You Are? Chart-topping history of humanity Yuval Noah Harari. A woman disappears: we think we know whodunit, but were wrong. Spoor, the film adaptation of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. She meets other writers for dinner. The Guardian Books podcast Our favourite books of 2019, and the most exciting books of 2020 - books podcast Priya Basil talks about the dynamics of the dinner table and her book Be My. Read the review, Childrens fiction came of age when the final part of Pullmans His Dark Materials trilogy became the first book for younger readers to win the Whitbread book of the year award. Guardian (The Guardian Series) Paperback - August 23, 2016 by A.J. Rachel Weisz and Ralph Fiennes in the 2005 film adaptation of The Constant Gardener. There, she meets Jaxon Gray, her new partner who happens to be a werewolf. published 1785, avg rating 3.38 published 1930, avg rating 3.82 The100 greatest novels of all time: The list. Read the review, Pratchetts mighty Discworld series is a high point in modern fiction: a parody of fantasy literature that deepened and darkened over the decades to create incisive satires of our own world. 27,499 ratings The Belarusian Nobel laureate recorded thousands of hours of testimony from ordinary people to create this oral history of the Soviet Union and its end. Read the review, This warm yet biting collection of short stories by the Booker-winning American author will restore your faith in humanity. Not simply another expression of the techlash, Zuboffs ambitious study identifies a new form of capitalism, one involving the monitoring and shaping of our behaviour, often without our knowledge, with profound implications for democracy. Jeanette Winterson: The male push is to discard the planet: all the boys are going off into space, 12Bytes by Jeanette Winterson review engaging history of technological progress, 12Bytes by Jeanette Winterson review how we got here and where we might go next, Jeanette Winterson burns her own books in protest at cosy little blurbs, Tiger King and a bloody mary: Hilary Mantel, Simon Armitage and other writers on lockdown life, Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson review a dazzling reanimation of Shelleys novel, Jeanette Winterson: I did worry about looking at sex bots, Jeanette Winterson: I couldn't finish Fifty Shades. Books shelved as guardian-1000-must-read: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, Something Fresh by P.G. Read the review, In this urgent examination of free-market fundamentalism, Klein argues with accompanying reportage that the social breakdowns witnessed during decades of neoliberal economic policies are not accidental, but in fact integral to the functioning of the free market, which relies on disaster and human suffering to function. When Nigerian author Adichie was growing up, the Biafran war hovered over everything. 300,344 ratings published 1878, avg rating 3.72 Full of data, theories and historical analysis, its message is clear, and prophetic: unless governments increase tax, the new and grotesque wealth levels of the rich will encourage political instability. Paperback $14.00 $17.00 ADD TO CART Atonement Ian McEwan In Stock Online The best friends, played by Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino, are aimless 28-year-old roommates drifting on by in Los Angeles. Read the review, One of the most underrated prose writers demonstrates the literary firepower of science fiction at its best. 10,346 ratings Eilis makes a life for herself in New York, but is drawn back by the possibilities of the life she has lost at home. Judi Dench, left, and Cate Blanchett in the 2006 film adaptation of Notes on a Scandal. Find the original list here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/. 180,546 ratings Set around the unlikely bond between two wartime friends, Smiths debut brilliantly captures Britains multicultural spirit, and offers a compelling insight into immigrant family life. 7,680 ratings Refresh and try again. 5,050 ratings The book doubles as a set of profound reflections on objects and what they mean to us. Mary Beard, whose slim manifesto Women & Power became an instant feminist classic. Read the review, In this exquisite family memoir, the ceramicist explains how he came to inherit a collection of 264 netsuke small Japanese ornaments from his great-uncle. score: 103 of 1878 (5%) required scores: 1, 15, 50, 101, 155 Pollan is a skilled, amusing storyteller and The Omnivores Dilemma changed both food writing and the way we see food. published 1987, avg rating 4.00 Lucky Jim by Kingsley AmisMoney by Martin AmisThe Information by Martin AmisThe Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl BainbridgeAccording to Queeney by Beryl BainbridgeFlauberts Parrot by Julian BarnesA History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian BarnesAugustus Carp, Esq. To read her story of the rise of Thomas Cromwell at the Tudor court, detailing the making of a new England and the self-creation of a new kind of man, is to step into the stream of her irresistibly authoritative present tense and find oneself looking out from behind her heros eyes. 1,342,308 ratings Read the review, From the Sandman comics to his fantasy epic American Gods to Twitter, Gaiman towers over the world of books. Maras constructs an elegant murder mystery from his trademark labyrinthine sentences, but this investigation is in pursuit of much meatier questions than whodunnit. published 1906, avg rating 3.59 So when she's chosen to be a Guardian, investigators who solve paranormal crimes and murders, her life changes in an instant. In this book we have, as she intended, a sense of history listening and talking to itself.Read the review. Read the review, Moving from the underworld dens of Victorian London to the boudoirs of country house gothic, and hingeing on the seduction of an heiress, Waterss third novel is a drippingly atmospheric thriller, a smart study of innocence and experience, and a sensuous lesbian love story with a plot twist to make the reader gasp. Books shelved as 1000-guardian-must-read: The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington, Asterix the Gaul by Ren Goscinny, The Castafiore Emerald by Herg, . The ones that got away: Science fiction and fantasy, The ones that got away: State of the Nation, Choosing 1000 novels to read before you die, 1000 novels everyone must read: the definitive list, 1000 novels everyone must read: War & travel (part two), 1000 novels everyone must read: War & travel (part three), 1000 novels everyone mst read: War & travel (part one), Top 10 trivia: Novels that predicted the future, About 79 results for 1000 novels everyone must read. Viscerally focused and intense, yet imbued with the grandeur of the landscape, the book explores love, gender and survival with a rare, luminous power.Read the review, Los Angeles Times journalist Barbara Demick interviewed around 100 North Korean defectors for this propulsive work of narrative non-fiction, but she focuses on just six, all from the north-eastern city of Chongjin closed to foreigners and less media-ready than Pyongyang. Read the review, In this modern classic of reportage, Ehrenreich chronicled her attempts to live on the minimum wage in three American states. In 2009 The Guardian created an exhaustive list of the best 1000 novels of all time. Her devastating examination of grief and widowhood changed the nature of writing about bereavement. Once we searched Google, but now Google searches us. Read the review, At the time when Ware won the Guardian first book award, no graphic novel had previously won a generalist literary prize. The 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 Gripping novels, transporting poetry, and timely nonfiction that asked us to look deeper Andrew R. Chow, Lucy Feldman, Mahita Gajanan, Annabel Gutterman,. Written by Damon Galgut Brutal emotional truths hit home in Damon Galgut's deft, powerful story of a diminished family and a troubled land. Feel weve left off a crucial book? 7,944 ratings It is above all, writes The Guardian, "a tribute to the magic of reading," which The New York Times called: "a wildly inventive novel that teems with life, straddles an enormous range of. 379,198 339 A Dutch High School's English Book List. Read the review, The members of one ordinarily unhappy American family struggle to adjust to the shifting axes of their worlds over the final decades of the 20th century. Read the review, Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone becomes absorbed in the mystery of a dogs demise, meticulously investigating through diagrams, timetables, maps and maths problems. Louis Sachar deftly weaves together stories from the past and present, creating a brilliant and thought-provoking tale about Stanley Yelnats, Camp Green Lake, and the power of strength and perseverance in the face of adversity. published 1963, avg rating 4.00 It follows the emotions and experiences of a strong, unbroken woman who continued to grow morally and spiritually despite a troubled childhood and a sexist, repressed Victorian society. These varied perspectives, illuminated by love and loyalty, combine to create a thoughtful mosaic depicting the complex beginnings of Britains multicultural society. In peerless prose, Hollinghurst captures something close to the spirit of an age. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is unveiling a 30-point package of City policy changes on Friday that rows . His sixth novel, a love triangle set among human clones in an alternative 1990s England, brings exquisite understatement to its exploration of mortality, loss and what it means to be human. A universal story of love, endurance and missed chances, made radiant through Tibns measured prose and tender understatement.Read the review, In the first book in her dystopian MaddAddam trilogy, the Booker winner speculates about the havoc science can wreak on the world. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Read the review, The science journalist examines with clarity and memorable detail the current crisis of plant and animal loss caused by human civilisation (over the past half billion years, there have been five mass extinctions on Earth; we are causing another). Pullman has brought imaginative fire and storytelling bravado to the weightiest of subjects: religion, free will, totalitarian structures and the human drive to learn, rebel and grow. System Two is slow, calculated and deliberate, like long division. Set in an alternative Britain, this groundbreaking piece of young adult fiction sees black people, called the Crosses, hold all the power and influence, while the noughts white people are marginalised and segregated. In her intricate and richly imagined far future universe, the world is ending, ripped apart by relentless earthquakes and volcanoes. Here Asriels struggle against the Authority reaches its climax, Lyra and Will journey to the Land of the Dead, and Mary investigates the mysterious elementary particles that lend their name to his current trilogy: The Book of Dust. published 1961, avg rating 3.95 The 29th book, focusing on unlikely heroes, displays all his fierce intelligence, anger and wild humour, in a story thats moral, humane and hilarious. Read the review, British fictions most anarchic author is as prolific as she is playful, but this freewheeling, visionary epic set around the Thames Gateway is her magnum opus. 9,875 ratings 54,825 ratings She leads storytelling exercises. Read the review, Writing against the tremendous despair at the height of the Bush administrations powers and the outset of the war in Iraq, the US thinker finds optimism in political activism and its ability to change the world. 13,228 ratings Hilary Mantel captures a sense of history listening and talking to itself. Feminism, mythology and the daily grind come together for a book that combines emotion and intellect to dazzling effect.Read the review, As the hysteria over immigration to the US began to build in 2015, the Mexican novelist volunteered to work as an interpreter in New Yorks federal immigration court. Sally Rooney focuses on the uncertainty of millennial life. 5,277 ratings Skloot skilfully tells the extraordinary scientific story, but in this book the voices of the Lacks children are crucial they have struggled desperately even as billions have been made from their mothers HeLa cells. Read the review, The British novelist combines fiction and non-fiction to form a searing essay on grief and love for his late wife, the literary agent Pat Kavanagh. Are straight women really having such terrible sex? 612,019 ratings Trips belowthe surface inspire reflections on deep geological time and raiseurgent questions about the human impact on planet Earth. Melo began seeking out more Amazonian books and by the time he went to study at the Federal University of Amazonas in 1999, his collection had grown considerably: other students came to him when . 137,970 ratings Read the review, With cold, clear, precise prose, Didion gives an account of the year her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, collapsed from a fatal heart attack in their home. 27,462 ratings published 1877, avg rating 3.24 His final work, the typically allusive life story of one man, charts the Jewish disapora and lost 20th century with heartbreaking power. Read the review, A father and his young son, each the others world entire, trawl across the ruins of post-apocalyptic America in this terrifying but tender story told with biblical conviction. Read our pick of the best books since 2000 Lost chapter of world's first novel found in Japanese storeroom 1 min read From 2019 One mans life is blighted by abuse and its aftermath, but also illuminated by love and friendship. This article was amended on 15 February 2018 to correct the spelling of Father Amaro from Father Amado, as an earlier version said. As Ames concludes, to his son and himself: There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient. Read the review, Mantel had been publishing for a quarter century before the project that made her a phenomenon, set to be concluded with the third part of the trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, next March. published 1969, avg rating 4.06 Carson charts the course of a doomed marriage in loose-limbed lines that follow the switchbacks of thought and feeling from first meeting through multiple infidelities to arrive at eventual divorce. 4,277 ratings published 1956, avg rating 3.84 From left: Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield in the 2010 film adaptation of Never Let Me Go. Read the review, An eye-opening study, based on overwhelming evidence, which revealedthat among rich countries, the more equal societies almost always dobetter for all. "Comedy" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read" 151 books 160 voters Nymn's Best of Older Male/Teacher/Guardian Roles in Romance 73 books 149 voters "Crime" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read" List 147 books 134 voters Science Fiction and Fantasy on The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. 118,351 ratings published 2000, avg rating 3.86 This grand survey of Europe since 1945 begins with the devastation left behind by the second world war and offers a panoramic narrative of the cold war from its beginnings to the collapse of the Soviet bloc a part of which Judt witnessed firsthand in Czechoslovakias velvet revolution. Read the review, The New Yorker staff writer examines phenomena from shoe sales to crime rates through the lens of epidemiology, reaching his own tipping point, when he became a rock-star intellectual and unleashed a wave of quirky studies of contemporary society. All rights reserved. From swimmers to sewage workers, boatbuilders to bailiffs, salmon fishers to ferryman, the voices are varied and vividly brought to life.Read the review. Welcome back. 1,309 ratings Andrew Crumey lists 10 acts of fortune-telling, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every Read the review, The Nobel laureates unexpected bestseller, on the minutiae of decision-making, divides the brain into two. 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The unlikely survival of the netsuke entails De Waal telling a story that moves from Paris to Austria under the Nazis to Japan, and he beautifully conjures a sense of place. Garner puts herself centre stage in an account of Robert Farquharsons trial that combines forensic detail and rich humanity.Read the review, This book-length poem is a mesmerising tapestry of the rivers mutterings, based on three years of recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. 5,921 ratings More accessible and focused than Flights, the novel that won Tokarczuk the Man International Booker prize, it is no less profound in its examination of how atavistic male impulses, emboldened by the new rightwing politics of Europe, are endangering people, communities and nature itself. Read the review, The first instalment of Knausgaards relentlessly self-examining six-volume series My Struggle revolves around the life and death of his alcoholic father. The books combination of honesty, scholarly rigour and poetry made it a benchmark in literary memoir and understanding of mental health. published 1900, avg rating 3.79 Emotional and artistic complexity are perfectly poised in this account of a listless 36-year-old office dogsbody who is thrown into an existential crisis by an encounter with his estranged dad. Jaxon is smart, cocky, sexy, and drives Alana . Read all children's books Crime and thrillers Composite: Guardian design Cosy crime from Ajay Chowdhury, a new Rebus novel and a handful of excellent debuts - Laura Wilson rounds up the best. Last month we ran a series of 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - which of your all-time favourite comedy novels did we miss? published 1844, avg rating 3.75 Read the review, Jemisin became the first African American author to win the best novel category at the Hugo awards for her first book in the Broken Earth trilogy. Working first as a waitress, then a cleaner and a nursing home aide, she still struggled to survive, and the stories of her co-workers are shocking. Read the review. Their convergence is wonderfully achieved. published 1984, avg rating 3.86 The 100 best books of the 21st century | Books | The Guardian Best culture of the 21st century The 100 best books of the 21st century Books of the century so far Composite: PR Dazzling. Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara in the 2011 film adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Alana has to attend Guardian Academy to train for her new role as a Guardian investigator. Two slaves flee their masters using the underground railroad, the network of abolitionists who helped slaves out of the south, wonderfully reimagined by Whitehead as a steampunk vision of a literal train. 810 ratings Against this apocalyptic backdrop she explores urgent questions of power and enslavement through the eyes of three women. 3,768 152 Pretending to Be a . 4,181 ratings Oh dear - I have an awful lot of books to get around to reading. Read the review, Sheba, a middle-aged teacher at a London comprehensive, begins an affair with her 15-year-old student - but we hear about it from a fellow teacher, the needy Barbara, whose obsessive nature drives the narrative. 12. A mesmerising tapestry of the River Darts mutterings Alice Oswald. As this genre finally acknowledges that the dreams of the marginalised matter and that all of us have a future, she said in her acceptance speech, so will go the world. published 1893, The Man of Property (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1), The Crab with the Golden Claws (Tintin #9), The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose (Paperback), Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin #1), Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Paperback), Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories (Paperback), Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1), Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Paperback), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Hardcover), The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3), Claudine at School (Mass Market Paperback), The Adventures of Baron Mnchausen (Paperback), Journey to the Center of the Earth (Paperback). A telling description of modern power Yanis Varoufakis. Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs Read our pick of the best books since 2000, Perhaps better known for her screenwriting (Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally, Heartburn), Ephrons brand of smart theatrical humour is on best display in her essays. Read the review, Inspired by both Proust and The Sopranos, Egans Pulitzer-winning comedy follows several characters in and around the US music industry, but is really a book about memory and kinship, time and narrative, continuity and disconnection. As well as being genuinely useful, its a fascinating chronicle of literary persistence, and of a lifelong love affair with language and narrative.Read the review, Henrietta Lacks was a black American who died in agony of cancer in a coloured hospital ward in 1951. published 1990, avg rating 3.68 See also: Comedy Section of the Guardian List Crime Section of the Guardian List Family and Self Section of the Guardian List Read the review, Tibns sixth novel is set in the 1950s, when more than 400,000 people left Ireland, and considers the emotional and existential impact of emigration on one young woman. It was further corrected on 10 March 2022 to correct the spelling of Bernhard Schlink; and to amend the title of the Elizabeth Smart novel from At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, to By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. 1,607 ratings Oxford graduate Nick Guest has the questionable good fortune of moving into the grand west London home of a rising Tory MP. Read the review, There are echoes of DH Lawrence and EM Forster in McEwans finely tuned dissection of memory and guilt. Guardian Books on Fiction The 100 best books of the 21st century 20+ min read From 2019 Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs . James McAvoy in the film adaptation of Atonement. The Hollywood-fuelled commercial success achieved by JK Rowling may have eluded Pullman so far, but his sophisticated reworking of Paradise Lost helped adult readers throw off any embarrassment at enjoying fiction written for children and publishing has never looked back. Her focus is on the dislocation and uncertainty of millennial life, but her elegant prose has universal appeal. Ursula Todds multiple lives see her strangled at birth, drowned on a Cornish beach, trapped in an awful marriage and visiting Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden. by Primo LeviThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonThe Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLeanAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian by Cormac McCarthyThe Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulleyLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtyThe Naked and the Dead by Norman MailerLa Condition Humaine by Andre MalrauxFortunes of War by Olivia ManningOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe Children of the New Forest by Frederick MarryatMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleTales of the South Pacific by James MichenerThe Cruel Sea by Nicholas MonsarratHistory by Elsa MoranteSuite Francaise by Irene NemirovskyThe Sorrow of War by Bao NinhMaster and Commander by Patrick OBrianThe Things They Carried by Tim OBrienThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska OrczyBurmese Days by George OrwellZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert PirsigThe Valley of Bones by Anthony PowellThe Soldiers Art by Anthony PowellThe Military Philosophers by Anthony PowellGravitys Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolp Erich RaspeAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Crab with the Golden Claws by Georges Remi HergeTintin in Tibet by Georges Remi HergeThe Castafiore Emerald by Georges Remi HergeThe Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Joao Guimaraes RosaSacaramouche by Rafael SabatiniCaptain Blood by Rafael SabatiniEverything is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran FoerThe Hunters by James SalterIvanhoe by Sir Walter ScottThe Rings of Saturn by WG SebaldAusterlitz by WG SebaldBlack Beauty by Anna SewellThe Young Lions by Irwin ShawA Town Like Alice by Nevil ShuteMaus by Art SpiegelmanThe Charterhouse of Parma by StendhalCryptonomicon by Neal StephensonA Sentimental Journey by Lawrence SterneKidnapped by Robert Louis StevensonTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonA Flag for Sunrise by Robert StoneSophies Choice by William StyronGullivers Travels by Jonathan SwiftWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules VerneA Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules VerneWilliwaw by Gore VidalCandide by VoltaireSlaughter-House Five by Kurt VonnegutPut Out More Flags by Evelyn WaughMen at Arms by Evelyn WaughThe Island of Dr Moreau by HG WellsThe Machine-Gunners by Robert WestallVoss by Patrick WhiteThe Virginian by Owen Wister The Caine Mutiny by Herman WoukThe Debacle by Emile Zola. The Guardian's The 100 greatest novels of all time. published 1982, avg rating 4.09 But you do not need to know or care about the sport, because as with all Lewiss best writing its all about how the story is told. Martin Amis recalls his velvet-suited, snakeskin-booted youth. published 1940, avg rating 3.91 Based on the case of a rogue antibiotics trial that killed and maimed children in Nigeria in the 1990s, it has all the dash and authority of his earlier novels while precisely and presciently anatomising the dangers of a rampant neo-imperialist capitalism. Read the review, A reunion dominates the Irish novelists family drama, but the individual stories of the five members of the Madigan clan the matriarch, Rosaleen, and her children, Dan, Emmet, Constance and Hanna, who escape and are bound to return are beautifully held in balance. Read the review, Rooneys second novel, a love story between two clever and damaged young people coming of age in contemporary Ireland, confirmed her status as a literary superstar. The books industry needs to "wake up to the world beyond the M25", according to a new report into the under-representation of British working-class writers, which lays out a damning indictment . A book of elegies and echoes, these poems are infused with a haunting sense of pathos, with a line often left hanging to suspend the reader in longing and regret. Barkers extraordinary intervention, in which she replays the events of the Iliad from the point of view of the enslaved Trojan women, chimed with both the #MeToo movement and a wider drive to foreground suppressed voices. Portrait of an unconventional mind A stage adaptation of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. published 1941, avg rating 3.91 Lifelong remorse, the horror of war and devastating twists are to follow in an elegant, deeply felt meditation on the power of love and art. Kolbert considers both ecosystems the Great Barrier Reef, the Amazon rainforest and the lives of some extinct and soon-to-be extinct creatures including the Sumatran rhino and the most beautiful bird in the world, the black-faced honeycreeper of Maui. Joshua Hood's Upcoming Book - The Guardian From the "master of action" (Publishers Weekly) and USA Today, bestselling author of Robert Ludlum's Treadstone series comes a new thriller as intense and fast-paced as The Bourne Identity. Thank you! Two decades on, Gladwell is often accused of oversimplification and cherry picking, but his idiosyncratic bestsellers have helped shape 21st-century culture. All rights reserved. 2,837 ratings Mythic and tender by turns, these are tall tales from a lost frontier.Read the review, Pitted against a backdrop of prejudice, this London-set novel is told by four protagonists Hortense and Gilbert, Jamaican migrants, and a stereotypically English couple, Queenie and Bernard. published 1969, avg rating 3.94 Read the review, Canadas observant and humane short story writer, who won the Nobel in 2013, is at her best in this collection. The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 The fiction, nonfiction and poetry that deepened our understanding, ignited our curiosity and helped us escape Andrew R. Chow, Eliana Dockterman, Mahita Gajanan,. 102,755 ratings Read the review, From the slow emergency response in the black suburbs destroyed by hurricane Katrina to a mother trying to move her daughter away from a black passenger on a plane, the poets award-winning prose work confronts the history of racism in the US and asks: regardless of their actual status, who truly gets to be a citizen? The author started out as the poet laureate of Twitter; her language is brilliant, and she has a completely original mind. Here, it is the enclosure of the commons, a fulcrum of English history, that drives his story of dispossession and displacement. Read the review. A very complex story is told with page-turning urgency and what may now be read as nostalgic faith in the European idea. The slide into savagery as civilisation collapses is harrowing material, but McCarthys metaphysical efforts to imagine a cold dark universe where the light of humanity is winking out are what make the novel such a powerful ecological warning. Please do NOT add any books to this list! Book four, the first of the doorstoppers, marks the point where the series really takes off. Read the review, This startling work of autofiction, which signalled a new direction for Cusk, follows an author teaching a creative writing course over one hot summer in Athens. The Books You've Always Meant to Read Bestselling Add to Basket Click & Collect The Secret Donna Tartt In stock online 9.99 Paperback Add to Basket Click & Collect The Song of Madeline Miller In stock online 9.99 Paperback Add to Basket Click & Collect What If? Originally published in thematic supplements love, crime, comedy, family and self, state of the nation, science fiction and fantasy, war and travel they appear here for the first time in a single list. The master storyteller on finding a voice, creative originality and why he has never suffered from writer's block My first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, published in 1979, is fewer than 200 pages . From falling in love to betrayal and separation, Duffy reimagines romance with refreshing originality. ; The BBC's Big Read Top 100.; Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime . published 1950, avg rating 3.57 This may not be the only account of living in a religious household in the American midwest (in her youth, the author joined a group called Gods Gang, where they spoke in tongues), but it is surely the funniest. Read the review, Sebald died in a car crash in 2001, but his genre-defying mix of fact and fiction, keen sense of the moral weight of history and interleaving of inner and outer journeys have had a huge influence on the contemporary literary landscape. Her cells, taken without her knowledge during a biopsy, went on to change medical history, being used around the world to develop countless drugs. . 5,760 ratings Franzens move into realism reaped huge literary rewards: exploring both domestic and national conflict, this family saga is clever, funny and outrageously readable. But was it an accident? published 1963, avg rating 4.03 2,272 ratings published 1995, avg rating 4.23 2022 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Last month we ran a series of 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - which of your all-time favourite science fiction and fantasy novels did we miss? Read the review. Amy Adams in Arrival, the 2015 film based on a short story by Ted Chiang. 5,905 ratings Read the review, What if aviator Charles Lindbergh, who once called Hitler a great man, had won the US presidency in a landslide victory and signed a treaty with Nazi Germany? Three narrative strands spanning far-future space opera, contemporary unease and virtual-reality pastiche are braided together for a breathtaking metaphysical voyage in pursuit of the mystery at the heart of reality.Read the review, A grand house by a lake in the east of Germany is both the setting and main character of Erpenbecks third novel. A smart study of innocence and experience Sarah Waters. Read the review, The title is the question Wintersons adoptive mother asked as she threw her daughter out, aged 16, for having a girlfriend. In this powerful series of essays she tells the poignant stories of the children she met, situating them in the wider context of the troubled relationship between the Americas. published 1864, avg rating 3.99 16,823 ratings (Soon, I hope. published 1974, avg rating 4.18 The narrator's eye shifts and blinks, deliciously lethal in its observation of the crash and burn of a white South African family. The Guardian 'Must Read' Crime Novels Posted on 5 June 2012 In 2009 The Guardian printed a list of the 1,000 novels which everyone should read, you can read the original article here and the list below is of the books which come under the category of crime. published 1924, avg rating 3.69 by Alice MunroThe Black Prince by Iris MurdochThe Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil A House for Mr Biswas by VS NaipaulAt-Swim-Two-Birds by Flann OBrienTeach Us to Outgrow Our Madness by Kezaburo OeThe Moviegoer by Walker PercyThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathMy Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim PotokThe Good Companions by JB PriestleyThe Shipping News by E Annie ProulxRemembrance of Things Past by Marcel ProustA Married Man by Piers Paul ReadPointed Roofs by Dorothy RichardsonThe Fortunes of Richard Mahoney by Henry Handel RichardsonCall it Sleep by Henry RothJulie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise by Jean-Jacques RousseauThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Catcher in the Rye by JD SalingerAlberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel A Suitable Boy by Vikram SethUnless by Carol ShieldsWe Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel ShriverThe Three Sisters by May SinclairThe Family Moskat or The Manor or The Estate by Isaac Bashevis SingerA Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyOn Beauty by Zadie SmithThe Man Who Loved Children by Christina SteadEast of Eden by John SteinbeckBallet Shoes by Noel StreatfieldConfessions of Zeno by Italo SvevoThe Magnificent Ambersons by Booth TarkingtonAngel by Elizabeth TaylorLark Rise to Candleford by Flora ThompsonThe Blackwater Lightship by Colm ToibinThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue TownsendDeath in Summer by William TrevorFathers and Sons by Ivan TurgenevPeace in War by Miguel de Unamuno The Rabbit Omnibus by John UpdikeThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerJimmy Corrigan, The Smarest Kid on Earth by Chris WareMorvern Callar by Alan WarnerThe History of Mr Polly by HG WellsThe Fountain Overflows by Rebecca WestFrost in May by Antonia WhiteThe Tree of Man by Patrick WhiteThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeOranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette WintersonIll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard WoodwardTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfMrs Dalloway by Virginia WoolfSwiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss, Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain-FournierDom Casmurro Joaquim by Maria Machado de AssisNorthanger Abbey by Jane AustenSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenMansfield Park by Jane AustenEmma by Jane AustenPersuasion by Jane AustenGiovannis Room by James BaldwinNightwood by Djuna BarnesThe Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis by Giorgio BassaniLove for Lydia by HE BatesMore Die of Heartbreak by Saul BellowLorna Doone by RD BlackmoreThe Death of the Heart by Elizabeth BowenThe Heat of the Day by Elizabeth BowenJane Eyre by Charlotte BronteVilette by Charlotte BronteWuthering Heights by Emily BronteLook At Me by Anita BrooknerRubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae BrownPossession by AS ByattBreakfast at Tiffanys by Truman CapoteOscar and Lucinda by Peter CareyA Month in the Country by JL CarrMy Antonia by Willa CatherA Lost Lady by Willa CatherClaudine a lecole by Sidonie-Gabrielle ColetteCheri by Sidonie-Gabrielle ColletteVictory: An Island Tale by Joseph ConradThe Princess of Cleves by Madame de LafayetteThe Parasites by Daphne du MaurierRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Lover by Marguerite DurasAdam Bede by George EliotDaniel Deronda by George EliotThe Mill on the Floss by George EliotThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Great Gatsby by F Scott FitzgeraldTender is the Night by F Scott FitzgeraldThe Blue Flower by Penelope FitzgeraldMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Good Soldier by Ford Madox FordA Room with a View by EM ForsterThe French Lieutenants Woman by John FowlesThe Snow Goose by Paul GallicoRuth by Elizabeth GaskellStrait is the Gate by Andre GideSunset Song by Lewis Grassic GibbonThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang GoetheLiving by Henry GreenThe End of the Affair by Graham GreeneThe Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe HallFar From the Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyJude the Obscure by Thomas HardyTess of the DUrbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Woodlanders by Thomas HardyThe Go-Between by LP HartleyThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Transit of Venus by Shirley HazzardA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayThe Infamous Army by Georgette HeyerRegency Buck by Georgette HeyerThe Swimming-Pool Library by Alan HollinghurstGreen Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest by WH HudsonTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonCrome Yellow by Aldous HuxleyThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroPortrait of a Lady by Henry JamesThe Wings of the Dove by Henry JamesThe Piano Teacher by Elfriede JelinekBeauty and Saddness by Yasunari KawabataThe Far Pavillions by Mary Margaret KayeZorba the Greek by Nikos KazantzakisMoon over Africa by Pamela KentThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaLes Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos Lady Chatterleys Lover by DH LawrenceThe Rainbow by DH LawrenceWomen in Love by DH LawrenceThe Echoing Grove by Rosamond LehmannThe Weather in the Streets by Rosamond LehmannGentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita LoosZami by Audre LordeForeign Affairs by Alison LurieSamarkand by Amin MaaloufDeath in Venice by Thomas MannThe Silent Duchess by Dacia MarainiA Heart So White by Javier MariasLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia MarquezOf Human Bondage by Somerset MaughamSo Long, See you Tomorrow by William MaxwellThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Child in Time by Ian McEwanThe Egoist by George MeredithTropic of Cancer by Henry MillerPatience and Sarah by Isabel MillerGone With the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pursuit of Love by Nancy MitfordLove in a Cold Climate by Nancy MitfordArturos Island by Elsa MoranteNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiLolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male by Vladimir NabokovThe Painter of Signs by RK NarayanDelta of Venus by Anais NinAll Souls Day by Cees NooteboomThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakManon Lescaut by Abbe PrevostWide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysMaurice Guest by Henry Handel RichardsonPamela by Samuel RichardsonClarissa by Samuel RichardsonGilead by Marilynne RobinsonBonjour Tristesse by Francoise SaganAli and Nino by Kurban SaidLight Years by James SalterA Sport and a Passtime by James SalterThe Reader by Bernhard SchlinkThe Reluctant Orphan by Aara SealeLove Story by Eric SegalEnemies, a Love Story by Isaac Bashevis SingerBy Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth SmartI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Map of Love by Ahdaf SoueifValley of the Dolls by Jacqueline SusannWaterland by Graham SwiftDiary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro TanizakiAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyMusic and Silence by Rose TremainFirst Love by Ivan TurgenevBreathing Lessons by Anne TylerThe Accidental Tourist by Anne TylerThe Night Watch by Sarah WatersThe Graduate by Charles WebbThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonThe Passion by Jeanette WintersonEast Lynne by Ellen WoodRevolutionary Road by Richard Yates, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsNon-Stop by Brian W AldissFoundation by Isaac AsimovThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaids Tale by Margaret AtwoodIn the Country of Last Things by Paul AusterThe Drowned World by JG BallardCrash by JG BallardMillennium People by JG BallardThe Wasp Factory by Iain BanksConsider Phlebas by Iain M BanksWeaveworld by Clive BarkerDarkmans by Nicola Barker The Time Ships by Stephen BaxterDarwins Radio by Greg BearVathek by William BeckfordThe Stars My Destination by Alfred BesterFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyLost Souls by Poppy Z BriteWieland by Charles Brockden BrownRogue Moon by Algis BudrysThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Coming Race by EGEL Bulwer-LyttonA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe End of 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