By far the most Vonnegut novel we’ve even come across. Fans are still waiting for volume two. No matter how weird the setting – a futuristic prison lab, a middle-class home where human lawn ornaments are employed as a status symbol – in these surreal satires of post-crash life Saunders reminds us of the meaning we find in small moments. In this riotous memoir, Satrapi focuses on one young life to reveal a hidden history. No character acts as at first expected in Munro’s stories, which are attuned to the tiniest shifts in perception. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Great doesn't need to mean old. From Zadie Smith to Bernardine Evaristo, the first two decades of the twenty-first century have produced some stellar fictional offerings. But this dizzying fictional construction is grounded by such emotional intelligence that her heroine’s struggles always feel painfully, joyously real. The former children’s laureate’s series is a crucial work for explaining racism to young readers. Copyright © Simon & Schuster | All rights reserved. My Brilliant Friend was a book we could not get enough of in the past few years. 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. Every word feels genuine and evokes such strong feeling. 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. It focuses largely on their relationship, and acts as a sort of elegy to Mapplethorpe. A very complex story is told with page-turning urgency and what may now be read as nostalgic faith in “the European idea”. 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 God’s Gang, where they spoke in tongues), but it is surely the funniest. As well as being genuinely useful, it’s 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. Perry Albrigo February 7, 2019 at 06:37 PM: Great list — Suzanna Clark’s Jonathon Strange & Mr. Notell should be on everyone’s list of great books I first heard of Clark im Neil Gaiman’s Virwnfrom the Cheap Seats. It’s harrowing, powerful, and moving, with lyrical writing that will forever be etched in our minds and hearts. Read the review, An electrifying memoir that captured a moment in thinking about gender, and also changed the world of books. Thank you Powell’s! During a weekend away with a friend in an eerie glass house, crime writer Leonora wakes up in a hospital bed injured wondering not “What happened?” but “What have I done?” This one is for fans of GONE GIRL and THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN. She is Black and her children’s father is White. They escape a horrific school, and over the course of a summer, they cross paths with many others: struggling farmers and traveling faith healers, displaced families, and lost souls of all kinds. In this astonishing memoir—the basis of the forthcoming film starring Brie Larson—Walls recounts how her family’s dysfunction left her and her siblings to fend for themselves, weather their parents’ betrayals, and finally find the resources and will to leave home. Some readers wept all night, some condemned it as titillating and exploitative, but no one could deny its power.Read the review, Dylan’s reticence about his personal life is a central part of the singer-songwriter’s brand, so the gaps and omissions in this memoir come as no surprise. The fates of three young people are altered by a young girl’s lie at the close of a sweltering day on a country estate in 1935. In this book we have, as she intended, “a sense of history listening and talking to itself”.Read the review. This novel brings to light a woman of extraordinary determination and desire who lived at the heart of the most exciting and glamorous court in Europe and survived a treacherous political landscape by following her heart—Mary Boleyn, who had to step aside for her best friend and rival to take over Henry VIII’s heart and throne. Robinson’s 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 won’t 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. Thread starter Brian G Turner; Start date Apr 26, 2017; Brian G Turner Fantasist & Futurist. Read the review, The first instalment of Knausgaard’s relentlessly self-examining six-volume series My Struggle revolves around the life and death of his alcoholic father. Best 21st Century British Films by a-m-fleming | created - 20 May 2013 | updated - 23 May 2013 | Public Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Read the review, The Nobel laureate’s unexpected bestseller, on the minutiae of decision-making, divides the brain into two. In this instant New York Times bestselling thriller, what should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Read the review, One of the most underrated prose writers demonstrates the literary firepower of science fiction at its best. Two decades on, this still reads like urgent news. It’s spiritual, it’s moving, and, ultimately, incredibly impactful. 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. 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. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, 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. On any list of unlikely bestsellers from the last century, The Name of the Rose must hold a special place of distinction. When Milk and Honey was published, it took the world by storm. A woman disappears: we think we know whodunit, but we’re wrong. She leads storytelling exercises. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. 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. It’s an extremely powerful, stunning novel, set against the backdrop of World War II, about the ways in which people try to be good to each other against all odds. The book doubles as a set of profound reflections on objects and what they mean to us. This novel is a brilliant example of James’s ability to craft an entire world through the eyes of multiple characters—and that’s why it both won the Booker Prize and stole our hearts. 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 Erpenbeck’s third novel. But was it an accident? Some of these titles you might never have heard of, while others have spawned billion-dollar franchises. We’ll just say: Thanks, Philippa. We chose this over his other novels because it’s a heartbreaking but courageous mystery that knocks us down every time we read it. Rich with Ward’s distinctive, lyrical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic and unforgettable family story and “an odyssey through rural Mississippi’s past and present” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Haddon’s fascinating portrayal of an unconventional mind was a crossover hit with both adults and children and was adapted into a very successful stage play. We’ve written about him over and over, and it’s because we absolutely love him. 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 poet’s 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? Read the review, In his Olympian history of humanity, Harari documents the numerous revolutions Homo sapiens has undergone over the last 70,000 years: from new leaps in cognitive reasoning to agriculture, science and industry, the era of information and the possibilities of biotechnology. System One makes judgments quickly, intuitively and automatically, as when a batsman decides whether to cut or pull. Himself by Jess Kidd, )”, Makina sets off from her village in Mexico with a package from a local gangster and a message for her brother, who has been gone for three years. This pioneering work, which later became a musical, helped shape the modern genre of “graphic memoir”, combining detailed and beautiful panels with remarkable emotional depth. Eilis makes a life for herself in New York, but is drawn back by the possibilities of the life she has lost at home. What the evolutionary biologist lacks in philosophical sophistication, he makes up for in passion, and the book sold in huge numbers. 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. Harari’s scope may be too wide for some, but this engaging work topped the charts and made millions marvel. One man’s life is blighted by abuse and its aftermath, but also illuminated by love and friendship. The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, In a world still at war, it has chilling contemporary resonance.Read the review, A theoretical physicist opens a window on to the great questions of the universe with this 96-page overview of modern physics. But there are other men who complicate his understanding: his absent White father, Michael, who is being released from prison; his absent White grandfather, Big Joseph, who won’t acknowledge his existence; and the memories of his dead uncle, Given, who died as a teenager. It’s heartbreaking, but also full of love and faith—and honesty—making it easily one of the top books published in the 21st century. The surface details are sensuously, vividly immediate, the language as fresh as new paint; but her exploration of power, fate and fortune is also deeply considered and constantly in dialogue with our own era, as we are shaped and created by the past. This list comprises books we loved from the past 20 years, and for almost half that time, The Glass Castle has been on the New York Times’s bestseller list. Read the review, Writing against “the tremendous despair at the height of the Bush administration’s powers and the outset of the war in Iraq”, the US thinker finds optimism in political activism and its ability to change the world. Our editors then added our own selections. It is narrative genius with mischief and personality all its own—which is why it was an international publishing sensation that won the Booker Prize! Against this apocalyptic backdrop she explores urgent questions of power and enslavement through the eyes of three women. And though I’m not usually a reader of romance, the romantic pairings and journeys in her novels have so much emotional depth and passion and nuance, I can’t help but be swept up in them.” She has become one of our top authors, and her novel Fingersmith is a true treasure. Writers, waiters, doctors, soldiers, former Kremlin apparatchiks, gulag survivors: all are given space to tell their stories, share their anger and betrayal, and voice their worries about the transition to capitalism. 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. She has won the National Book Award twice—once for Salvage the Bones and once for this novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, which is destined to become a classic. Feel free to add any books but please mind this: 1. Some say she’s cold and unfeeling, calculating to a subhuman degree, and basically totally nutso. WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR. These varied perspectives, illuminated by love and loyalty, combine to create a thoughtful mosaic depicting the complex beginnings of Britain’s multicultural society. His mother, Leonie, is an inconsistent presence in his and his toddler sister’s lives. These following list of 50 Best Contemporary Novels are chosen by the awards, storyline, popularity, and critical reception from major media and judges. It’s a majestic, stirring story about a multigenerational family on a journey through rural Mississippi. Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien; The Third Policeman (1941, published 1967) by Flann O'Brien; The Glass Bead Game (1943) by Hermann Hesse; The Cannibal (1949) by John Hawkes; The Ginger Man (1955) by J. P. Donleavy; The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis; On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac; The Comforters (1957) by Muriel … Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell, Trips belowthe surface inspire reflections on “deep” geological time and raiseurgent questions about the human impact on planet Earth. Phone orders min p&p of £1.99. April 16, 2018 By Book Marks. 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. Best culture of the 21st century The 100 best books of the 21st century Books of the century so far Composite: PR Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of … 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. Recommended Books of the 20th and 21st Centuries; Postmodern Fiction; Magical Realism ; Recommended books of the 20th and 21st Centuries. 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 York’s federal immigration court. Read the review, A reunion dominates the Irish novelist’s 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. That’s what they’ve been told. Barker brings her customary linguistic invention and wild humour to a tale about history’s hold on the present, as contemporary Ashford is haunted by the spirit of a medieval jester.Read the review, The Levin family battle against starvation in this novel set during the German siege of Leningrad. We have rounded up a list of seven critically acclaimed and highly popular Indian novels that are absolute must-reads for anyone interested in 21st-century literature from the subcontinent. The 29th book, focusing on unlikely heroes, displays all his fierce intelligence, anger and wild humour, in a story that’s moral, humane – and hilarious. As Mabanckou’s unreliable narrator munches his “bicycle chicken” and drinks his red wine, it becomes clear he has the history of Congo-Brazzaville and the whole of French literature in his sights.Read the review, Radical journalist Mikael Blomkvist forms an unlikely alliance with troubled young hacker Lisbeth Salander as they follow a trail of murder and malfeasance connected with one of Sweden’s most powerful families in the first novel of the bestselling Millennium trilogy. Read the review, The epic that made Mitchell’s name is a Russian doll of a book, nesting stories within stories and spanning centuries and genres with aplomb. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals. A housekeeper’s fate is changed by the pranks of her employer’s teenager daughter; an incorrigible flirt gracefully accepts his wife’s new romance in her care home. Read the review, The title is the question Winterson’s adoptive mother asked as she threw her daughter out, aged 16, for having a girlfriend. Happily, Showtime has it in development. Offer expires in three months, unless otherwise indicated. In The Public Burning, narrated in part by Richard M. Nixon, history itself is overturned so that Nixon lusts over convicted spy Ethel Rosenberg. In peerless prose, Hollinghurst captures something close to the spirit of an age. Now that we’re entering the 2020s, we thought it only fair to look back at all the amazing stories published in the past 20 years and honor the best of the best from the 21st century (so far). Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, “Ward’s writing throbs with life, grief, and love… this book is the kind that makes you ache to return to it” (Buzzfeed). Read the review, A love story to the golden age of comics in New York, Chabon’s Pulitzer-winner features two Jewish cousins, one smuggled out of occupied Prague, who create an anti-fascist comic book superhero called The Escapist. 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 Dawkins’s confidence that faith produces fanatics and all arguments for God are ridiculous. 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, Atkinson examines family, history and the power of fiction as she tells the story of a woman born in 1910 – and then tells it again, and again, and again. Read the review, The beautifully written product of 15 years of research, Capital made its author an intellectual star – the modern Marx – and opened readers’ eyes to how neoliberalism produces vastly increased inequalities. Make no mistake, those are indeed some of the best novels of the 21st century. The novel is really an allegory for the history of the LGBTQ experience in the twentieth century. ’Nuff said. The end result is sublime. But psychologist Kahneman argues that, although System Two thinks it is in control, many of our decisions are really made by System One. 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. Read the review, In this existential eco-thriller, a William Blake-obsessed eccentric investigates the murders of men and animals in a remote Polish village. Early postmodern novels. It’s incredibly touching, funny, and heartfelt, and lasted with us years after we finished reading it. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, His life is haunted by the disappearance of his cousin Lucy, who is revealed 20 years later to have been murdered by Fred West. Set against the color and creativity of downtown New York in the 1960s and 1970s, Smith’s story is made for the movies. Here Asriel’s 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. Similar to Gone Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo became an international sensation. Read the review, In this modern classic of reportage, Ehrenreich chronicled her attempts to live on the minimum wage in three American states. But this perfectly achieved children’s novella, in which a plucky young girl enters a parallel world where her “Other Mother” is a spooky copy of her real-life mum, with buttons for eyes, might be his finest hour: a properly scary modern myth which cuts right to the heart of childhood fears and desires.Read the review, Crace is fascinated by the moment when one era gives way to another. “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. Their convergence is wonderfully achieved. It celebrates artistry, love, friendship, and the hustle of New York in the 60s and 70s. The result is both sharp and dreamy, sliding in and out of different phases of Dylan’s career but rooted in his earliest days as a Woody Guthrie wannabe in New York City. 100 21st-century novels to love Elena Ferrante, Sarah Waters, Colson Whitehead and Colm Toibin — just the tip of the iceberg in our list of great modern reads ILLUSTRATION BY … She is an imperfect mother in constant conflict with herself and those around her. Book four, the first of the doorstoppers, marks the point where the series really takes off. Two decades on, Gladwell is often accused of oversimplification and cherry picking, but his idiosyncratic bestsellers have helped shape 21st-century culture. Here, it is the enclosure of the commons, a fulcrum of English history, that drives his story of dispossession and displacement. From swimmers to sewage workers, boatbuilders to bailiffs, salmon fishers to ferryman, the voices are varied and vividly brought to life.Read the review. Available for everyone, funded by readers. Read the review, There are echoes of DH Lawrence and EM Forster in McEwan’s finely tuned dissection of memory and guilt. This novel about a group of British boys stranded on a deserted island trying and miserably failing to govern themselves made both of Modern Library’s lists of 100 best twentieth century novels (forty-first on the editors’ list and twenty-fifth on the readers’ list), ranked seventieth on BBC’s “The Big Read,” and was chosen by TIME as one of the 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005. Barker’s 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. “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. 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. Anna digs tank traps and dodges patrols as she scavenges for wood, but the hand of history is hard to escape. Atonement by Ian McEwan, 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. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, Rupi Kaur’s short, honest, and relatable poems resonated with readers everywhere. 6 Alaskan Reads Packed with Snow and Adventure, 7 Iconic Holiday Song and Book Pairings to Bring You Good Cheer, The Best of 2020: The Top 10 Reviews of the Year, full terms and conditions and this month's choices, 10 Enchanting Books New in Paperback This December, An Ingenious, Interactive Gift Book for Lovers of Literature, Bundle These 8 Classic Gifts with Cozy Books for the Ultimate Holiday Season, December eBook Deals: 14 Must-Reads to Add to Your Digital TBR Stack. So here it is, The 25 Best Books of the 21st Century as decided by some random people on Twitter. Ruth Ware is the queen of twist endings and we love her for it. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Read the review, Known for the firecracker phrases and broad satires of his fiction, Amis presented a much warmer face in his memoir. The autobiographical story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and the trials of Winterson’s later life, is urgent, wise and moving. This pulse-pounding thriller follows a journalist and a troubled hacker as they try to discover what happened to a young woman who disappeared forty years earlier. Whether or not you regard him as the Proust of memoir, his compulsive honesty created a new benchmark for autofiction. The story of her crossing to the US examines the blurring of boundaries, the commingling of languages and the blending of identities that complicate the idea of an eventual return. Stuart’s Fictional Dinner Party Guests: Elena and Lila. • To order any of these titles go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. 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. Between the World and Me takes the form of a letter to his teenage son, and ranges from the daily reality of racial injustice and police violence to the history of slavery and the civil war: white people, he writes, will never remember “the scale of theft that enriched them”. Existential, painful, and unforgettable, NEVER LET ME GO explores how even the most disenfranchised and doomed characters find meaning, hope, and love, even as they resign themselves to a life cut horribly short. Anthony Doerr’s book won the Pulitzer Prize and was on the New York Times’s bestseller list for more than two and a half years—and it was a finalist for the National Book Award. 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