The Times' 25 Books You Must Read

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As a million copies of 25 modern classics are given away for World Book Night, which title would top authors give to a stranger?

  1. 1.
    The Reluctant Fundamentalist
    by Mohsin Hamid
  2. 2.
    Cloud Atlas: A Novel
    by David Mitchell
  3. 3.
    Rachel's Holiday
    by Marian Keyes
  4. 4.
    The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
    by John Le Carre
  5. 5.
    Case Histories : A Novel
    by Kate Atkinson
  6. 6.
    The Blind Assassin: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood
  7. 7.
    A Life Like Other People's
    by Alan Bennett
  8. 8.
    Killing Floor (Jack Reacher)
    by Lee Child
  9. 9.
    The World's Wife: Poems
    by Carol Ann Duffy
  10. 10.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon
  11. 11.
    New Selected Poems, 1966-87
    by Seamus Heaney
  12. 12.
    Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  13. 13.
    Life of Pi
    by Yann Martel
  14. 14.
    Stuart: A Life Backwards
    by Alexander Masters
  15. 15.
    A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Rohinton Mistry
  16. 16.
    Beloved (Everyman's Library)
    by Toni Morrison
  17. 17.
    One Day (Vintage Contemporaries Original)
    by David Nicholls
  18. 18.
    Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake Mysteries)
    by C. J. Sansom
  19. 19.
    Toast
    by Nigel Slater
  20. 20.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Muriel Spark
  21. 21.
    Fingersmith
    by Sarah Waters
  22. 22.
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Created by edith on Mar 04, 2011.
 

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edith

Untitled — 1 year ago

Despite the title, the article only seems to mention 22 books!

The authors who chose them were:

1. Philip Pullman

2. Yann Martel

3. Joanna Trollope

4. William Boyd

5. Lee Child

6. Joan Smith

7. Alexander Masters

8. Jeffery Deaver

9. Daljit Nagra

10. Emma Donoghue

11. Don Paterson

12. Meg Rosoff

13. Frank Cottrell Boyce

14. Mark Haddon

15. John Sutherland

16. Bernardine Evaristo

17. Tony Parsons

18. Bernard Cornwell

19. Edmund de Waal

20. Alexander McCall Smith

21. Julie Myerson

22. John le Carré

Mar 04, 02:21PM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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