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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Ian Watson obituary
Innovative and award-winning science-fiction writer whose novels extended to horror, fantasy and the Warhammer franchise
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
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
Why food is the real star of my new novel
From James Bond’s breakfasts to the kimchi fried rice in Crying in H Mart, a book’s food can often linger longer in our memories than its characters or storylines
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
‘Stunned and shocked’: Ingrid Horrocks wins top prize at New Zealand’s Ockham awards for her fiction debut
All Her Lives is only the fifth short story collection to win the prestigious NZ$65,000 prize in 58 years
#MeToo-themed novel wins inaugural reader-led award worth £50,000
British author Donna Fisher has won the Libraro prize for the unpublished manuscript of her ‘provocative and timely’ book, Sheep’s Clothing
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
John of John by Douglas Stuart review – will a father and son come out to each other?
The Booker winner’s epic tale of gay love and loneliness in the Hebrides charts an uneasy homecoming against a backdrop of repression
‘I don’t know what could top that’: debut author Jem Calder on being discovered by Sally Rooney
His first story collection, Reward System, was a cult hit. Now comes a novel that’s a bleakly funny appraisal of millennial relationships, technology and ennui. He talks about love, precarity and being called the ‘voice of a generation’
The rise of the literary nepo baby? The children of famous novelists on following in their parents’ footsteps
From Naomi Ishiguro to Jess Atwood Gibson, more children of high profile writers are becoming authors themselves. Parents and their literary offspring discuss the pressures of measuring up