Telegraph's "100 Best Books Since 1982"

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The 100 best books of the past 25 years. Some bad picks, but mostly good ones.

In reverse order of publication (newest first.)

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  1. 1.
    The God Delusion
    by Richard Dawkins

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  2. 2.
    The Book Thief
    by Markus Zusak

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  3. 3.
    The Historian
    by Elizabeth Kostova

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  4. 4.
    Labyrinth
    by Kate Mosse

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  5. 5.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon

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  6. 6.
    Cloud Atlas
    by David Mitchell

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  7. 7.
    Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
    by Susanna Clarke

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  8. 8.
    Small Island: A Novel
    by Andrea Levy

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  9. 9.
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    by Audrey Niffenegger

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  10. 10.
    The Kite Runner
    by Khaled Hosseini

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  11. 11.
    The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    by Mitch Albom

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  12. 12.
    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown

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  13. 13.
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    by Bill Bryson

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  14. 14.
    Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?: A Novel
    by Zoe Heller

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  15. 15.
    Vernon God Little
    by DBC Pierre

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  16. 16.
    The Lovely Bones
    by Alice Sebold

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  17. 17.
    Fingersmith
    by Sarah Waters

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  18. 18.
    Middlesex

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  19. 19.
    If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
    by Jon McGregor

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  20. 20.
    The Crimson Petal and the White
    by Michel Faber

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  21. 21.
    The Shadow of the Wind
    by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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  22. 22.
    Life of Pi

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  23. 23.
    Atonement: A Novel
    by Ian McEwan

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  24. 24.
    Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, Book 1)
    by Eoin Colfer

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  25. 25.
    Carter Beats the Devil
    by Glen Gold

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  26. 26.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon

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  27. 27.
    The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
    by Sophie Kinsella

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  28. 28.
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by Dave Eggers

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  29. 29.
    White Teeth: A Novel
    by Zadie Smith

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  30. 30.
    The Blind Assassin
    by Margaret Atwood

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  31. 31.
    Stalingrad
    by Anthony Beevor

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  32. 32.
    The Gruffalo
    by Julia Donaldson

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  33. 33.
    Chocolat
    by Joanne Harris

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  34. 35.
    Holes
    by Louis Sachar

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  35. 36.
    The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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  36. 37.
    Girlfriend in a Coma
    by Douglas Coupland

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  37. 38.
    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    by J.K. Rowling

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  38. 39.
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    by Arthur Golden

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  39. 40.
    God Of Small Things
    by Arundhati Roy

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  40. 41.
    Enduring Love
    by Ian McEwan

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  41. 42.
    Cold Mountain
    by Charles Frazier

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  42. 43.
    An Instance of the Fingerpost: A Novel
    by Iain Pears

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  43. 44.
    Bridget Jones's Diary - A Novel
    by Helen Fielding

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  44. 45.
    The Beach
    by Alex Garland

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  45. 46.
    Angela's Ashes
    by Frank McCourt

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    Northern Lights (His Dark Materials)
    by Philip Pullman

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  47. 48.
    Notes from a Small Island
    by Bill Bryson

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  48. 49.
    High Fidelity: A Novel
    by Nick Hornby

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  49. 50.
    Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
    by Kate Atkinson

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Comments

Untitled — 1 year ago

well i’m pleasantly surprised to find some personal favourites here- Love in the Time of Cholera, The Wind up Bird Chronicle, Life of Pi, Jonathan Strange, The Alchemist, Shadow of the Wind, Stalingrad, A Short History of Nearly Everything…


Fixed... — 2 years ago

Birdsong. It was, in fact, a children’s book.


bartzturkeymom
Seattle

is it really that Birdsong? — 2 years ago

could it be Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks? the one shown looks like a children’s book.


Added... — 2 years ago

a list source, and changed the description a little: the list isn’t in random order.