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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Non-Winners of the Man Booker

71st out of 274 books — 245 voters

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Restless by William Boyd

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

Costa/Whitbread Novel Award Winners

11th out of 94 books — 89 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

WWII Historic Fiction

235th out of 1,508 books — 1,602 voters

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka

One Day by David Nicholls

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing

6th out of 103 books — 28 voters

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry

Spies by Michael Frayn

Unless by Carol Shields

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

2002 Booker Prize Longlist

3rd out of 20 books — 4 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Howards End by E.M. Forster

Best Novels Set in 20th-century Britain

131st out of 399 books — 213 voters

The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Marking Time by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Casting Off by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Confusion by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian

World War II England

42nd out of 482 books — 198 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Sink into British-ness

133rd out of 749 books — 125 voters

Spies by Michael Frayn

Headlong by Michael Frayn

The Tin Men by Michael Frayn

The Russian Interpreter by Michael Frayn

A Landing on the Sun by Michael Frayn

Best of Michael Frayn

1st out of 61 books — 3 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Best Books Ever

22400th out of 78,539 books — 292,759 voters

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Circe by Madeline Miller

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Women by Kristin Hannah

[2024] Best Books of the Month (2024)

433rd out of 564 books — 120 voters

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Sunday Times 100 21st-Century Novels to Love

51st out of 108 books — 34 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

21st out of 136 books — 19 voters

The Law of Attraction by N.M. Silber

Isle of Winds by James Fahy

Breaking Glass by Lisa Amowitz

Drowned Tomb by James Fahy

Chains of Gaia by James Fahy

Books you wish more people knew about - Part II

1348th out of 3,162 books — 2,545 voters

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

The Worst Books of All Time

3870th out of 8,117 books — 19,898 voters

C by Tom McCarthy

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

Booker Longlists (Since 2001)

147th out of 345 books — 5 voters

Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

100 Must Read Prize Winning Novels

30th out of 100 books — 1 voter

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

Small Island by Andrea Levy

English Passengers by Matthew Kneale

Costa Book Award for Best Novel [dissolved]

21st out of 22 books — 2 voters

Pure by Andrew Miller

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

Costa Novel Winners and Shortlisted 1995-2019

45th out of 96 books — 2 voters

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

This Is Chance! by Jon Mooallem

The Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor

2020 Acquisitions & Development for TV/Film Adaptations (Part 1 - Jan. to July)

43rd out of 101 books — 5 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Howards End by E.M. Forster

"Family & Self" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"

147th out of 147 books — 103 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"

751st out of 1,021 books — 604 voters

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

Costa Book Award

35th out of 86 books — 11 voters

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Best for Book Clubs

13044th out of 15,370 books — 19,680 voters

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Combat Ready by David Wolstenholm

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières

Experiences of war

42nd out of 64 books — 13 voters

It by Stephen King

Dune by Frank Herbert

Jaws by Peter Benchley

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

X by Sue Grafton

Shortest Titles Ever

322nd out of 440 books — 32 voters

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré

Smiley's People by John le Carré

The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

The Constant Gardener by John le Carré

Literary Spy Stories

218th out of 225 books — 234 voters

The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake

The Quincunx by Charles Palliser

The Elephant Tree by R.D. Ronald

Lost in Yaba by Walt Gleeson

The CodeBreaker Mindset by Chitra Nawbatt

Best Unappreciated Books

4091st out of 4,393 books — 2,299 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

A Story of Yesterday by Sergio Cobo

A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin

Divergent by Veronica Roth

What's the Book You Can't Wait to Read This Summer?

9726th out of 14,497 books — 15,368 voters

Secrets of the Realm by Bev Stout

September Ends by Hunter S. Jones

Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past by Paul Cude

Kings & Queens by Courtney Vail

Wood, Talc and Mr. J by Chris Rose

Books You Wish More People Knew About - Part 2

313th out of 1,033 books — 582 voters

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