Big Jubilee List

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In honour of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee as monarch, ten books from each decade of her reign have been chosen by an expert panel of librarians, booksellers and literature specialists.
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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
42,667 members
996 reviews
3.9
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
40,922 members
1,114 reviews
4.1
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
38,027 members
708 reviews
4.2
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The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
15,847 members
459 reviews
4.2
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Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
8,172 members
241 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
43,293 members
2,098 reviews
½ 4.4
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A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
25,306 members
379 reviews
4
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The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
11,390 members
172 reviews
3.9
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Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
10,615 members
268 reviews
3.8
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A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
8,982 members
247 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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The Thorn Birds
by Colleen McCullough
7,378 members
148 reviews
4
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Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
6,668 members
292 reviews
4.2
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The Girls of Slender Means
by Muriel Spark
1,281 members
56 reviews
½ 3.6
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Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart
2,192 members
112 reviews
4.2
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Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
13,593 members
241 reviews
4
2 Members
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A Grain of Wheat
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
910 members
20 reviews
½ 3.7
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White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
13,431 members
240 reviews
½ 3.7
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Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
13,143 members
639 reviews
4
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
by John le Carré
8,164 members
225 reviews
4
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The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
19,153 members
362 reviews
3.9
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The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
5,672 members
121 reviews
3.8
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Small Island
by Andrea Levy
3,950 members
140 reviews
3.9
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The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton
4,794 members
243 reviews
3.8
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The Sea, the Sea
by Iris Murdoch
3,481 members
93 reviews
3.9
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The Bone People
by Keri Hulme
3,711 members
109 reviews
4.1
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A House for Mr Biswas
by V. S. Naipaul
3,369 members
66 reviews
3.8
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Cloudstreet
by Tim Winton
2,608 members
61 reviews
4.1
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
by Joan Lindsay
1,816 members
55 reviews
3.8
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Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
2,826 members
125 reviews
4.2
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Omeros
by Derek Walcott
1,110 members
19 reviews
3.9
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The Guide
by R. K. Narayan
945 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Whale Rider
by Witi Ihimaera
1,372 members
45 reviews
3.9
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Clear Light of Day
by Anita Desai
704 members
22 reviews
½ 3.5
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Arrow of God
by Chinua Achebe
1,236 members
23 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Secret River
by Kate Grenville
2,737 members
128 reviews
3.8
36
Behold the Dreamers
by Imbolo Mbue
1,866 members
100 reviews
3.9
37
To Sir, With Love
by E. R. Braithwaite
1,244 members
28 reviews
4
38
The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
by Alice Munro
1,238 members
39 reviews
4
39
The Night Tiger
by Yangsze Choo
1,151 members
49 reviews
½ 3.7
40
The Book of Night Women
by Marlon James
1,019 members
40 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Boat
by Nam Le
1,004 members
36 reviews
½ 3.7
42
The Promise
by Damon Galgut
953 members
48 reviews
4
43
The Lonely Londoners
by Sam Selvon
832 members
26 reviews
½ 3.7
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Death of a Naturalist
by Seamus Heaney
705 members
8 reviews
4.1
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The Memory of Love
by Aminatta Forna
689 members
45 reviews
4
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A Golden Age
by Tahmima Anam
681 members
42 reviews
½ 3.6
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Paradise
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
578 members
23 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town
by Amos Tutuola
488 members
16 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
by Ayi Kwei Armah
479 members
2 reviews
3.8
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The Interrogation
by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
477 members
15 reviews
3.2
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In the Castle of My Skin
by George Lamming
338 members
6 reviews
½ 3.3
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Tsotsi
by Athol Fugard
311 members
8 reviews
3.8
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Our Lady of the Nile
by Scholastique Mukasonga
294 members
14 reviews
3.8
54
A Passage North
by Anuk Arudpragasam
291 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Blue Bedspread
by Raj Kamal Jha
280 members
5 reviews
3.1
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How We Disappeared
by Jing-Jing Lee
233 members
11 reviews
4
57
Chinaman
by Shehan Karunatilaka
213 members
7 reviews
3.9
58
The Crow Eaters: A Novel
by Bapsi Sidhwa
184 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
59
Sunlight on a Broken Column
by Attia Hosain
183 members
6 reviews
3.8
60
One Moonlit Night
by Caradog Prichard
151 members
3 reviews
3.8
61
Salt
by Earl Lovelace
139 members
½ 3.6
62
Beka Lamb
by Zee Edgell
126 members
7 reviews
½ 3.3
63
Adoption Papers
by Jackie Kay
82 members
3 reviews
3.9
64
Summer Lightning and Other Stories
by Olive Senior
71 members
1 review
3.2
65
The Bone Readers
by Jacob Ross
60 members
6 reviews
3.8
66
My Bones and My Flute
by Edgar Mittelholzer
49 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
67
When Rain Clouds Gather AND Maru
by Bessie Head
39 members
1 review
½ 4.3
68
The Hills Were Joyful Together
by Roger Mais
36 members
3 reviews
4
69
Schindler's Ark
by Thomas Keneally
31 members
4
70
The Nowhere Man
by Kamala Markandaya
21 members