Big Jubilee List

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In honour of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee as monarch, ten books from each decade of her reign have been chosen by an expert panel of librarians, booksellers and literature specialists.
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1
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
47,447 members
1,050 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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2
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
48,366 members
1,235 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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3
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
43,866 members
804 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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4
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
19,121 members
522 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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5
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
9,443 members
272 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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6
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
52,240 members
2,239 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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7
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
28,603 members
415 reviews
4
2 Members
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8
The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
12,567 members
189 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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9
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
11,828 members
297 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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10
A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
9,986 members
271 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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11
The Thorn Birds
by Colleen McCullough
8,368 members
161 reviews
4
2 Members
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12
Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7,897 members
317 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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13
The Girls of Slender Means
by Muriel Spark
1,487 members
62 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
14
Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart
3,729 members
156 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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15
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
15,507 members
269 reviews
4
2 Members
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16
A Grain of Wheat
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
1,123 members
26 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
17
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
14,989 members
267 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
gypsysmom
18
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
15,475 members
699 reviews
4
Member
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19
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
by John le Carré
9,667 members
249 reviews
4
Member
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20
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
21,629 members
404 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
21
The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
6,168 members
127 reviews
3.8
Member
gypsysmom
22
Small Island
by Andrea Levy
4,260 members
146 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
23
The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton
5,895 members
268 reviews
3.8
Member
gypsysmom
24
The Sea, the Sea
by Iris Murdoch
4,115 members
107 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
25
The Bone People
by Keri Hulme
4,143 members
121 reviews
4.1
Member
gypsysmom
26
A House for Mr Biswas
by V. S. Naipaul
3,850 members
73 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
27
Cloudstreet
by Tim Winton
2,980 members
68 reviews
4.1
Member
gypsysmom
28
Picnic at Hanging Rock
by Joan Lindsay
2,246 members
70 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
29
Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
4,304 members
166 reviews
4.2
Member
gypsysmom
30
Omeros
by Derek Walcott
1,306 members
22 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
31
The Guide
by R. K. Narayan
1,086 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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32
The Whale Rider
by Witi Ihimaera
1,582 members
49 reviews
3.8
Member
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33
Clear Light of Day
by Anita Desai
788 members
24 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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34
Arrow of God
by Chinua Achebe
1,461 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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35
Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally
9,385 members
106 reviews
4.2
36
The Secret River
by Kate Grenville
2,966 members
134 reviews
3.8
37
Behold the Dreamers
by Imbolo Mbue
2,382 members
115 reviews
3.9
38
The Night Tiger
by Yangsze Choo
1,656 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
39
The Promise
by Damon Galgut
1,491 members
76 reviews
4
40
To Sir, With Love
by E. R. Braithwaite
1,414 members
33 reviews
3.9
41
The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
by Alice Munro
1,386 members
43 reviews
4
42
The Book of Night Women
by Marlon James
1,265 members
44 reviews
½ 4.4
43
The Boat
by Nam Le
1,128 members
40 reviews
½ 3.7
44
The Lonely Londoners
by Sam Selvon
1,038 members
31 reviews
½ 3.7
45
Paradise
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
849 members
37 reviews
½ 3.7
46
Death of a Naturalist
by Seamus Heaney
812 members
9 reviews
4
47
A Golden Age
by Tahmima Anam
759 members
44 reviews
½ 3.7
48
The Memory of Love
by Aminatta Forna
751 members
47 reviews
3.9
49
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
by Ayi Kwei Armah
586 members
1 review
3.8
50
The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town
by Amos Tutuola
584 members
18 reviews
½ 3.5
51
The Interrogation
by J.M.G. Le Clézio
527 members
15 reviews
½ 3.3
52
A Passage North
by Anuk Arudpragasam
449 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
53
Our Lady of the Nile
by Scholastique Mukasonga
394 members
24 reviews
3.9
54
In the Castle of My Skin
by George Lamming
394 members
6 reviews
½ 3.3
55
Tsotsi
by Athol Fugard
353 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
56
How We Disappeared
by Jing-Jing Lee
322 members
11 reviews
4
57
The Blue Bedspread
by Raj Kamal Jha
302 members
7 reviews
3
58
Chinaman
by Shehan Karunatilaka
265 members
10 reviews
3.9
59
Sunlight on a Broken Column
by Attia Hosain
227 members
7 reviews
3.8
60
One Moonlit Night
by Caradog Prichard
181 members
3 reviews
3.8
61
The Crow Eaters
by Bapsi Sidhwa
172 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
62
Salt
by Earl Lovelace
158 members
½ 3.7
63
Beka Lamb
by Zee Edgell
158 members
8 reviews
½ 3.3
64
The Adoption Papers
by Jackie Kay
91 members
3 reviews
3.9
65
The Bone Readers
by Jacob Ross
91 members
7 reviews
3.8
66
Summer Lightning and Other Stories
by Olive Senior
83 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
67
My Bones and My Flute
by Edgar Mittelholzer
70 members
3 reviews
2.9
68
When Rain Clouds Gather {and} Maru
by Bessie Head
47 members
1 review
½ 4.3
69
The Hills Were Joyful Together
by Roger Mais
39 members
3 reviews
4
70
The Nowhere Man
by Kamala Markandaya
22 members