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100 best novels
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?

International Booker prize
What should win this year’s International Booker?
John Self

Interview
‘I’m so grateful I got to live these days’: A Ghost in the Throat author Doireann Ní Ghríofa on recovering from depression
Alex Clark

Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
Tom Gauld on Middlemarch being voted the best novel of all time

Autobiography and memoir
Backtalker by Kimberlé Crenshaw review – the audacity of hope
Dorothy A Brown

Crime and thrillers roundup
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Laura Wilson

Book of the day
Cast Away by Francesca de Tores review – gripping portrait of the real-life Robinson Crusoe
AK Blakemore

What to read

100 best novels
The 100 best novels of all time

This month's best paperbacks
The best books to read in April: new paperbacks from Katie Kitamura, Benjamin Wood and Mick Herron

What we're reading
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in April

History books
Israel: What Went Wrong? by Omer Bartov review – the long view
Avi Shlaim

Science and nature books
This Book May Cause Side Effects by Helen Pilcher review – can you think yourself sick?
Farrah Jarral

DH Lawrence
Lady C by Guy Cuthbertson review – how Lady Chatterley’s Lover rocked Britain
Blake Morrison

History books
Iran and the Revolution by Homa Katouzian review – how the Islamic Republic was born
John Simpson

Fiction
The Given World by Melissa Harrison review – a stunning tale of rural life for an era of ecological crisis
Alexandra Harris

Fiction
What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton review – shyness, obsession and the joy of karaoke
Emma Loffhagen

Fiction
Solace House by Will Maclean review – immensely fun gothic horror with a psychedelic twist
Sam Leith

Science fiction roundup
The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup
Lisa Tuttle

Children's book roundup
Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
Imogen Russell Williams

Meet the lawyer, the marketing executive and the tech founder who enrolled in art school

‘We can be pioneers’: how art school creators are adapting to the age of AI

‘We attract very entrepreneurial students’: the art and design university that backs startup success

‘A space for exploration’: the London art school helping people to shape the world

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Interview
‘I don’t know what could top that’: debut author Jem Calder on being discovered by Sally Rooney
Ella Creamer

Interview
‘I wanted it to feel both Shakespearean and like Jay-Z’: debut author Sufiyaan Salam on masculinity, rap and meeting Stormzy
Emma Loffhagen

Interview
‘One of the most profound encounters of my life’: could existential therapist Emmy van Deurzen change the way you think?
Sophie McBain

Regulars

The books of my life
Lily King: ‘I couldn’t get past the first 20 pages of Pride and Prejudice’

Big idea
What happens when we lose a language?

Audiobook of the week
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood audiobook review – a shore thing

Poem of the week
‘She made Mondays something to look forward to’: readers pay tribute to Carol Rumens, Guardian’s Poem of the week columnist

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