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The Guardian asked readers a fortnight after the conclusion of McCrum's list to name the novels that they wish had been on the list. The book with the highest number of votes was Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the second Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, and the third Toni Morrison's Beloved.
The resulting list of "100 novels that shaped our world", [1] called the "100 Most Inspiring Novels" by BBC News, [2] was published by the BBC to kick off a year of celebrating literature. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
The highest-ranked book on the list was the Elena Ferrante novel My Brilliant Friend published in 2012. Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author.
Everett, whose acclaimed 2001 novel Erasure was turned into the Oscar-nominated 2023 film American Fiction, is a modern literary star and James is another lacerating, smart novel. (Mantle) (Mantle ...
Three contributing critics pick their best fiction of the year, including work by Victor LaValle, Ed Park, Lauren Groff, Yiyun Li and Tania James. The 13 best novels (and 2 best short story ...
Modern Library's 100 Best Novels is a 1998 list of the best English-language novels published during the 20th century, [a] as selected by Modern Library from among 400 novels published by Random House, which owns Modern Library. [1] The purpose of the list was to "bring the Modern Library to public attention" and stimulate sales of its books. [2]
British novels adapted into television shows (480 P) W. Works based on British novels (31 C, ...
Malavika Kannan came from Florida to attend Stanford. Out with her second novel, 'All the Yellow Suns,' she talks about queer stories and book bans. This Stanford senior already has two YA novels out.