Orange Prize for Fiction's "50 Essential Reads by Contemporary Authors"
Given by Orange Prize for Fiction
49 Works 525,418 Books 10,448 Reviews 4.0
To support the 2004 award, the Orange Prize for Fiction researched the UK’s first ever living library of 50 contemporary ‘essential reads’.
The books were chosen by a sample of 500 people show more attending the first week of the Guardian Hay festival and represent the audience’s definitive ‘must have’ bookshelf by living writers. show less
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