I wanted to be like Marie Curie.”. published 2018, avg rating 3.81 — published 2003, avg rating 3.96 — Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read 42,505 ratings — Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our Community Guidelines. Author Roberto Lovato talks immigration and family secrets. published 2009, avg rating 4.17 — published 2018, avg rating 4.33 — 19/20. published 2011, avg rating 3.74 — 2,661 ratings — Great Expectations is the roiling tale of the orphaned Pip, the lovely Estella, and the thwarted Miss Havisham. published 2017, avg rating 4.16 — Not many love stories take in a mad woman in the attic and a spot of therapeutic disfigurement, but this one somehow carries it off with mythic aplomb. And even if you love reading young adult fantasy, we can almost guarantee you haven’t read every book on this list. 969,565 ratings — We are no longer supporting IE (Internet Explorer), Do Not Sell My Personal Information – CA Residents. ", "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. 2:30 PM. Morrison was inspired by the real-life story of an enslaved woman who killed her own daughter rather than see her return to slavery. The acerbic wit and timeless truth of its observations mark this out as a work of genius; but at the time the author, Mary Anne Evans, had to turn to a male pen name to be taken seriously. published 2005, avg rating 4.14 — published 1998, avg rating 4.30 — 15,066 ratings — Born a sharecropper’s son in segregated rural Alabama, Congressman John Lewis became a key figure in the Civil Rights movement, ultimately receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. published 2009, avg rating 4.38 — 74,317 ratings — The novel, which is very regularly regarded as one of the best literary works of all time, tells the story of a man who takes the name “Don Quixote de la Mancha” and sets off in a fit of obsession over romantic novels about chivalry to revive the custom and become a hero himself. 645,285 ratings — 25,712 ratings — Here's a sampling of the best graphic novels and memoirs, old and new. Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. The best crime books of fall 2020. 36,562 ratings — published 1997, avg rating 4.20 — Try as film and TV might to humanise and make excuses for her, Becky needs victims to thrive! Scrap the wartime prologue, and Charles’s entire relationship with Sebastian’s sister Julia (Dear Evelyn, thank you for your latest manuscript, a few suggested cuts…) and you’re looking at one of the most affecting love affairs in the English language. 1,249,461 ratings — ", “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. 3,773,168 ratings — published 2017, avg rating 3.87 — CH, Roy won the 1997 Booker Prize with her debut novel, a powerful intergenerational tale of love that crosses caste lines in southern India, and the appalling consequences for those who break the taboos dictating “who should be loved, and how. CH, You can almost feel your mouth dry with thirst as you enter the world of Frank Herbert’s Dune and encounter the desert planet of Arrakis, with its giant sandworms and mind-altering spice. 2,261,953 ratings — It’s a fraught question, because the obvious answer – “the literary canon” – means a pantheon of predominantly dead, white dudes. published 2018, avg rating 4.33 — These biographies explain why. In her plot, the murdered child returns to haunt a black community, suggesting the inescapable taint of America’s history. Refresh and try again. We recommend our users to update the browser. 257,921 ratings — The power structures at play for centuries have meant that a very narrow band of people have been given the opportunity to say something universal about the human condition. published 2019, avg rating 4.05 — published 2014, avg rating 4.02 — A book that’s a sheer joy to read and also manages to satirise British fascist leader Oswald Mosley as a querulous grump in black shorts. Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Paperback), A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1), The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3). 2,423,568 ratings — 12,961 ratings — Val McDermid(6th in the Karen Pirie series)Atlantic Monthly: 436 pages, $26, The Law of Innocence published 2007, avg rating 4.16 — Comment. ooks, books, books. 41,627 ratings — (See our roundup for more.) 502,829 ratings — 1,128,440 ratings — The Best Crime Novels of the Last Decade _____ Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, by Sara Gran (2011) Gran’s first in the Claire DeWitt series was a shot of adrenaline straight into the arm of private eye fiction, a gleefully strange, esoteric, sometimes hallucinatory new rendition of a beloved genre. That he could do it in 250 pages that set the mind spinning and engage the emotions with every page-turn make this a rare science-fiction indeed. published 2015, avg rating 3.99 — 1,023,366 ratings — 25 ratings — I am looking for novels where the plot is full of seriousness. While she captures the disaffection of that era, Pond also gives us a view of the birth of a genuine artist. CR, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾, Sue Townsend, Read this one when you’re decrepit enough, and chances are you’ll die laughing. published 2017, avg rating 3.85 — published 2009, avg rating 4.02 — Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. 272,890 ratings — 33,798 ratings — 262,703 ratings — Refresh and try again. 21,127 ratings — 211,154 ratings — CR, Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, The most deliciously wicked experience in literature, this epistolary novel introduces us to the Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont, who play cruel games of sexual conquest on their unwitting victims. published 2018, avg rating 3.87 — 8,531 ratings — Welcome back. published 1949, avg rating 4.28 — ", "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”, "The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. CH, The protagonist of Rushdie’s most celebrated novel is born at the exact moment India gains independence. It is a fact universally acknowledged that every list of great books must include Pride and Prejudice.

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