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Best Novels of All Time

If best novels of all time is on your reading list, you're in the right place. We've pulled together a focused selection of fiction books — from enduring classics to the titles everyone is talking about right now.

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The Promise

by Damon Galgut

2021

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 One family. One promise. One chance to tell a new story. 'A moving, brilliantly told family epic' Elizabeth Day THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER On a farm outside Pretoria, the Swarts are gathering for Ma&…

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The Lives of Others

by Neel Mukherjee

2014

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award Winner of the Encore Award Shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Longlisted for the IMPAC Prize Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik …

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Flights

by Olga Tokarczuk

2018

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) &quo…

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The White Tiger

by Aravind Adiga

2020

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The stunning Booker Prize–winning novel from the author of Amnesty and Selection Day that critics have likened to Richard Wright’s Native Son, The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the po…

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North

by Richard Flanagan

2014

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present. Available now on Prime Video: Justin Kurzel’s highly anticipated series based on this Book…

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G.

by John Berger

2011

In this luminous novel -- winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize -- John Berger relates the story of "G.," a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of this century. With profound co…

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Judgement Day

by Penelope Lively

2011

Judgement Day is the third novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. Settled into the drowsy village life of Laddenham, where she is playing camp follower to her highly successful husband - clever, agnostic and interested - Clar…

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The Inheritance of Loss

by Kiran Desai

2026

A BEAUTIFUL TWENTIETH-ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNING MASTERPIECE 'A magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and political acuteness' Hermione Lee, chair of the Booker Prize judges High in th…

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Heat and Dust

by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1999

The Booker Prize–winning novel—intertwining the narratives of two women, past and present, and their relationships to India—from the novelist, short story writer, and two–time Academy Award–winning screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Partly s…

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The Book of Evidence

by John Banville

2001

Returning to Ireland to reclaim a painting that is part of his patrimony, a thirty-eight-year-old man commits a ghastly and motiveless murder, which he confesses in a novel-length narrative.…

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Days Without End

by Sebastian Barry

2017

Entering the U.S. army after fleeing the Great Famine in Ireland, seventeen-year-old Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, experience the harrowing realities of the Indian wars and the American Civil War between the Wyoming pla…

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