The Bone Clocks
Mitchell had been shortlisted twice when the judges declined to advance his most ambitious novel since Cloud Atlas - six decades, one woman's…
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TransAtlantic
Coming off the National Book Award for Let the Great World Spin, McCann braided Frederick Douglass in famine-era Ireland, the first nonstop…
The Stranger’s Child
Hollinghurst, who won in 2004 for The Line of Beauty, was longlisted for its follow-up and was second favourite to win - then failed to make the…
Netherland
The most discussed literary novel of its year in America - a post-9/11 meditation on cricket, marriage, and immigrant New York - couldn't…
Beyond Black
Hilary Mantel's reputation now rests so heavily on Thomas Cromwell that it is easy to forget she spent decades writing strange, corrosive…
Parable of the Sower
Some books arrive at the right cultural moment by accident; Octavia Butler's 1993 novel arrives at the right moment because she saw it coming.…
Always Coming Home
Most books ask to be read in a straight line. Always Coming Home, published in 1985 and the strangest beast in Ursula K. Le Guin's…
The Shockwave Rider
Pick up The Shockwave Rider expecting a relic of 1975, and the queasy recognition starts within pages. Brunner saw it all, or near enough: a vast…
Stand on Zanzibar
Stand on Zanzibar has spent more than five decades being handed around as the science fiction novel that got the future right, and the list of…
The Drowned World
The Drowned World is a strange book to recommend, because the things that make it remarkable in 2026 are not quite the things Ballard seems to have…
The Death of Grass
Post-war British science fiction sometimes asks, very politely, what it would take to crack the national character. John Wyndham's triffids…
Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut's debut, published in 1952, is the book his later admirers tend to skip on the way to Slaughterhouse-Five or Cat's Cradle,…
