The 100 best novels of all time
The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?
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All of a Sudden review – care home drama is tender, meditative and a little too precious for its own good
Cannes film festival: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ocean-hopping treatise on love and mortality is undeniably beautiful – but it works best in its quieter, compassionate moments rather than the flurries of self-conscious solemnity
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Honey by Imani Thompson; Quite Ugly One Evening by Chris Brookmyre; The Final Chapter by CB Everett; The Hollow Boys by Tariq Ashkanani; Shrink Solves Murder by Philippa Perry
Backtalker by Kimberlé Crenshaw review – the audacity of hope
The inspiring life of the Black American activist and legal scholar who changed the way the world thinks about race
Cast Away by Francesca de Tores review – gripping portrait of the real-life Robinson Crusoe
This fascinating novel about 18th-century privateer Alexander Selkirk, abandoned on a tiny island in the South Pacific, becomes a revelatory meditation on humanity
Songwriters on the Run by Robert Forster review – Go-Betweens frontman hits a dud note
There’s little melody or rhythm in Forster’s prose, while the dialogue is plodding and full of exposition
Fatherland review – Sandra Hüller brings a bayonet of intelligence to Paweł Pawlikowski’s taut return
Hanns Zischler stars as Thomas Mann on his 1949 tour of Germany, contending with political barbs, personal tragedy and his daughter, played by an extraordinary Hüller
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood audiobook review – a shore thing
A wannabe folk singer’s humdrum life as a shrimp catcher is upended by the arrival of a mysterious American stranger in the Booker-listed tale
Sherlock Holmes review – the game is afoot, a stone’s throw from Baker Street
The detective and his sidekick return for a new case by Joel Horwood in an alfresco setting that playfully refers to nearby attractions
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans review – immensely enjoyable return of the epistolary novel
This moving work about an irascible woman in her 70s who conducts her most intimate relationships through letters has been shortlisted for the Women’s prize
Weimar by Katja Hoyer review – the town that changed Germany
It was the birthplace of the liberal tradition, but also the incubator for Nazism – what can this historic city tell us about democracy?
Vocal Break by Lauren Elkin review – a celebration of the female voice
From Édith Piaf to Charli xcx, a moving study of the ways women express themselves – and the obstacles they face
Uprising by Tahmima Anam review – a fiery novel of female rebellion
Radical hope and rage combine in this tale of ecological precarity and resistance among sex workers on a brothel island
High and Low by Amanda Craig review – will Britain boil over?
A north London cafe is under siege in a state-of-the-nation satire that brings together the haves and have-nots