Best Novels of All Time

The English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje

2011

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Warlight traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. “A rare spellbinding web of dreams.” —Time The nurse Hana…

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The Line of Beauty

by Alan Hollinghurst

2008

The National Bestseller, Winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.…

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A Town Called Solace

by Mary Lawson

2021

As a seven-year-old girl watches for her missing sister, a stranger moves in next door and a neighbour’s old secret starts to resurface... In Solace, Northern Ontario, seven-year-old Clara waits at the window for her missing sister Rose. Ne…

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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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Offshore

by Penelope Fitzgerald

2013

The eccentric residents of a houseboat community along the Thames in London float between loneliness and connection in this Booker Prize–winning novel. On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temp…

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Blonde Roots

by Bernardine Evaristo

2020

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009 WINNER OF THE ORANGE YOUTH PANEL AWARD 2009 FINALIST FOR THE HURSTON WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD 2010 'A phenomenal book. It is so …

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Soul Tourists

by Bernardine Evaristo

2005

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER 'Evaristo possesses enough ball-busting originality to create whole novels for each of the historical characters she resurrects . . . [she creates] funky yarns so tantalising yo…

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The Luminaries

by Eleanor Catton

2013

The winner of the Man Booker Prize, this "expertly written, perfectly constructed" bestseller (The Guardian) is now a Starz miniseries. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rus…

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…

The Sense of an Ending

by Julian Barnes

2026

Possession

by A. S. Byatt

1992

Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters,…

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

1995

'BEST OF THE BOOKER' AWARD WINNER • This towering classic of international literature is at once a riveting family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people. “One of the most important books to come out of the …