NYT's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review. See the whole list here.
Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize by Claire Keegan
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Stylish and open-hearted, this is a very different kind of love story, elevated and energised by being set in the world of creativity and video gaming THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON ... 'I loved this book' Jojo Moyes This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam catc ...Show more
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged s ...Show more
Trust by Hernán Diaz
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Buzzy and enthralling ...A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery...Fun as hell to read." --Oprah Daily"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City's elite in the roaring '20s and Great Depression."--Vanity Fair"A riveting ...Show more
Pachinko: The New York Times Bestseller by Min Jin Lee
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * 'This is a captivating book ... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity a ...Show more
The Vegetarian by Deborah Smith; Han Kang
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A beautiful, unsettling novel in three acts, about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul. Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptabl ...Show more
Stay True by Hua Hsu
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir A Best Book of the Year: New York Times, Vogue, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, TIME, Rolling Stone 'One of the best nonfiction books about friendship ever, right up there with Patti Smith’s Just Kids’ – The Atlantic When Hua Hsu first meets Ken in a Berkele ...Show more
The Friend: Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction and a New York Times bestseller by Sigrid Nunez
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog - now in a stunning new edition as part of Virago's 50th anniversary Five Gold Reads seriesWINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL DU ...Show more
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tric ...Show more
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and her truly unique family secret ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
<b>The post-apocalyptic modern classic with an introduction by novelist John Banville.</b> In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing ...Show more
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, Emily St. John Mandel
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKSNow an HBO Max original TV seriesThe New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Arthur C. Clarke AwardLonglisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for FictionNational Book Awards FinalistPEN/Faulkner Award FinalistWhat was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost e ...Show more