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Patti Smith is an icon, and her memoir about her time living in New York with Robert Mapplethorpe as they both grow into themselves and rise to fame is remarkable. From falling in love to betrayal and separation, Duffy reimagines romance with refreshing originality. The Corrections by Johnathan Franzen, Some readers wept all night, some condemned it as titillating and exploitative, but no one could deny its power.Read the review, Dylan’s reticence about his personal life is a central part of the singer-songwriter’s brand, so the gaps and omissions in this memoir come as no surprise. Cat’s Cradle: A Novel. Elegant wit and subtle psychology lift grim subject matter into seductive brilliance.Read the review, A man drives his three sons into a deep pond and swims out, leaving them to drown. Read the review. Now we can’t get enough historical fiction! Read the review, An agenda-setting book that is devastating about the extent to which big tech sets out to manipulate us for profit. The high-level intrigue beguiled millions of readers, brought “Scandi noir” to prominence and inspired innumerable copycats.Read the review, A generation grew up on Rowling’s all-conquering magical fantasies, but countless adults have also been enthralled by her immersive world. Whether or not you regard him as the Proust of memoir, his compulsive honesty created a new benchmark for autofiction. Helen DeWitt’s “The Last Samurai” is the best 21st Century novel I’ve read. The breakout hit of 2014, this beautiful novel was a finalist for the National Book Award and it just won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. When the children’s father is released from prison, Leonie packs her kids and a friend into her car and drives north to the heart of Mississippi and Parchman Farm, the State Penitentiary. Read the review, Writing against “the tremendous despair at the height of the Bush administration’s powers and the outset of the war in Iraq”, the US thinker finds optimism in political activism and its ability to change the world. A universal story of love, endurance and missed chances, made radiant through Tóibín’s measured prose and tender understatement.Read the review, In the first book in her dystopian MaddAddam trilogy, the Booker winner speculates about the havoc science can wreak on the world. Nixon’s politics become a tormented psychodrama revealing the suppressed sexual tensions and paranoia that get … WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR. Rovelli’s keen insight and striking metaphors make this the best introduction to subjects including relativity, quantum mechanics, cosmology, elementary particles and entropy outside of a course in advanced physics. The fates of three young people are altered by a young girl’s lie at the close of a sweltering day on a country estate in 1935. Read the review, In this savagely beautiful novel set during the Indian wars and American civil war, a young Irish boy flees famine-struck Sligo for Missouri. Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. The story of her crossing to the US examines the blurring of boundaries, the commingling of languages and the blending of identities that complicate the idea of an eventual return. This novel is a brilliant example of James’s ability to craft an entire world through the eyes of multiple characters—and that’s why it both won the Booker Prize and stole our hearts. Her sweeping, evocative novel, which won the Orange prize, charts the political and personal struggles of those caught up in the conflict and explores the brutal legacy of colonialism in Africa. Read the review, This memoir by the leather-jacketed economist of the six months he spent as Greece’s finance minister in 2015 at a time of economic and political crisis has been described as “one of the best political memoirs ever written”. It’s heartbreaking, but also full of love and faith—and honesty—making it easily one of the top books published in the 21st century. (It made one of our Books I’ll Never Forget lists!). Powerfully intimate and unashamedly domestic, the first in Ferrante’s Neapolitan series established her as a literary sensation. 100 21st-century novels to love Elena Ferrante, Sarah Waters, Colson Whitehead and Colm Toibin — just the tip of the iceberg in our list of great modern reads ILLUSTRATION BY … The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Best Mysteries of the 21st Century Best Mysteries of the 20th Century Popular Highly Rated Mystery Best Mysteries by Subgenre Best Cozy Mystery Series Best Crime Mystery Books Best Historical Mystery Best Literary Mysteries Best Thrillers Edgar Awards: Edgar Award Winners Edgar Award Winners for Best First Novel Edgar Award Winners for Fact Crime Edgar Award Winners for Best … And though I’m not usually a reader of romance, the romantic pairings and journeys in her novels have so much emotional depth and passion and nuance, I can’t help but be swept up in them.” She has become one of our top authors, and her novel Fingersmith is a true treasure. Read the review, In this exquisite family memoir, the ceramicist explains how he came to inherit a collection of 264 netsuke – small Japanese ornaments – from his great-uncle. Anna digs tank traps and dodges patrols as she scavenges for wood, but the hand of history is hard to escape. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, Read the review, An eye-opening study, based on overwhelming evidence, which revealedthat among rich countries, the “more equal societies almost always dobetter” for all. For years, this remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption has given readers a glimpse into a family both deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. In this powerful series of essays she tells the poignant stories of the children she met, situating them in the wider context of the troubled relationship between the Americas. This may not be the only account of living in a religious household in the American midwest (in her youth, the author joined a group called God’s Gang, where they spoke in tongues), but it is surely the funniest. It focuses largely on their relationship, and acts as a sort of elegy to Mapplethorpe. Get great book recommendations delivered to your inbox. In a world still at war, it has chilling contemporary resonance.Read the review, A theoretical physicist opens a window on to the great questions of the universe with this 96-page overview of modern physics. Read the review, The fourth of the autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels finds the wealthy protagonist – whose flight from atrocious memories of child abuse into drug abuse was the focus of the first books – beginning to grope after redemption. “As this genre finally acknowledges that the dreams of the marginalised matter and that all of us have a future,” she said in her acceptance speech, “so will go the world. We talk a lot about the extremely talented author Sarah Waters. And even though he’s not fictional, I’d love for my best friend to be sitting at the table, too. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy is the best fantasy of the decade — The unreliable narrator is the biggest book trend of the decade — Elena … Some of these titles you might never have heard of, while others have spawned billion-dollar franchises. Complex, flawed but strong female characters. This pulse-pounding thriller follows a journalist and a troubled hacker as they try to discover what happened to a young woman who disappeared forty years earlier. Read the review, In this urgent examination of free-market fundamentalism, Klein argues – with accompanying reportage – that the social breakdowns witnessed during decades of neoliberal economic policies are not accidental, but in fact integral to the functioning of the free market, which relies on disaster and human suffering to function. Robinson’s meditative, deeply philosophical novel is told through letters written by elderly preacher John Ames in the 1950s to his young son who, when he finally reaches an adulthood his father won’t see, will at least have this posthumous one-sided conversation: “While you read this, I am imperishable, somehow more alive than I have ever been.” This is a book about legacy, a record of a pocket of America that will never return, a reminder of the heartbreaking, ephemeral beauty that can be found in everyday life. Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist, and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander team up to investigate the 40 year disappearance of Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families. And it won the Booker Prize! As you’re probably already aware, here at Off the Shelf we’re a little obsessed with books. It’s incredibly touching, funny, and heartfelt, and lasted with us years after we finished reading it. Early this year, the Book Review's editor, Sam Tanenhaus, sent out a short letter to a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages, asking them to please identify "the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years." Mythic and tender by turns, these are tall tales from a lost frontier.Read the review, Pitted against a backdrop of prejudice, this London-set novel is told by four protagonists – Hortense and Gilbert, Jamaican migrants, and a stereotypically English couple, Queenie and Bernard. Their own adventures are as exciting and highly coloured as the ones they write and draw in this generous, open-hearted, deeply lovable rollercoaster of a book.Read the review, A beautifully written and profound book, which takes the form of aseries of (often hair-raising and claustrophobic) voyages underground– from the fjords of the Arctic to the Parisian catacombs. The novel is really an allegory for the history of the LGBTQ experience in the twentieth century. Read the review, A Whitbread prizewinning memoir, full of perfectly chosen phrases,that is one of the best accounts of family dysfunction ever written.Sage grew up with her grandparents, who hated each other: he was a drunken philandering vicar; his wife, having found his diaries,blackmailed him and lived in another part of the house. This #1 New York Times bestseller is the rich, compelling historical drama full of love, sex, and ambition that became a film sensation and snowballed our fascination with the Tudor court into an entire fan culture. Now that we’re entering the 2020s, we thought it only fair to look back at all the amazing stories published in the past 20 years and honor the best of the best from the 21st century (so far). 6 Alaskan Reads Packed with Snow and Adventure, 7 Iconic Holiday Song and Book Pairings to Bring You Good Cheer, The Best of 2020: The Top 10 Reviews of the Year, full terms and conditions and this month's choices, 10 Enchanting Books New in Paperback This December, An Ingenious, Interactive Gift Book for Lovers of Literature, Bundle These 8 Classic Gifts with Cozy Books for the Ultimate Holiday Season, December eBook Deals: 14 Must-Reads to Add to Your Digital TBR Stack. Read the review, British fiction’s most anarchic author is as prolific as she is playful, but this freewheeling, visionary epic set around the Thames Gateway is her magnum opus. Hope, struggle, and love all play a major part, and with Ward’s lyrical writing, the book captures your every sense. I’d like to host a dinner with an eye on close friendships. Read the review. From Zadie Smith to Bernardine Evaristo, the first two decades of the twenty-first century have produced some stellar fictional offerings. Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel follows her coming-of-age in the lead up to and during the Iranian revolution. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. When selecting the 15 Best Westerns of the 21st Century, our Venn diagram included films set in or close to the classic Wild West era as well as films that successfully played in classic tropes while perhaps adding something new and relevant to today's audiences. But this perfectly achieved children’s novella, in which a plucky young girl enters a parallel world where her “Other Mother” is a spooky copy of her real-life mum, with buttons for eyes, might be his finest hour: a properly scary modern myth which cuts right to the heart of childhood fears and desires.Read the review, Crace is fascinated by the moment when one era gives way to another. Those in attendance would ideally have a multiple-decade friendship like Elena and Lila of MY BRILLIANT FRIEND. There had to be an intersection there. This novel brings to light a woman of extraordinary determination and desire who lived at the heart of the most exciting and glamorous court in Europe and survived a treacherous political landscape by following her heart—Mary Boleyn, who had to step aside for her best friend and rival to take over Henry VIII’s heart and throne. Read the review, The master of the cold war thriller turned his attention to the new world order in this chilling investigation into the corruption powering big pharma in Africa. The students of Hailsham are special. By Sara Roncero-Menendez | December 18, 2020, By Off the Shelf Staff | December 15, 2020. He is an excellent writer, and in this dystopian science fiction book (shortlisted for the Booker), his writing mastery is on full display. Atonement by Ian McEwan, ’Nuff said. Blending the author’s wry sense of humor with acute social insights in an absurd but wonderful fantasy world. We quickly discovered it’s nearly impossible to highlight just 20 books from the past 20 years, but we tried our best. The 29th book, focusing on unlikely heroes, displays all his fierce intelligence, anger and wild humour, in a story that’s moral, humane – and hilarious. Read the review, A key text in the days when the “New Atheism” was much talked about, The God Delusion is a hard-hitting attack on religion, full of Dawkins’s confidence that faith produces fanatics and all arguments for God are ridiculous. Phone orders min p&p of £1.99. This grand survey of Europe since 1945 begins with the devastation left behind by the second world war and offers a panoramic narrative of the cold war from its beginnings to the collapse of the Soviet bloc – a part of which Judt witnessed firsthand in Czechoslovakia’s velvet revolution. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. More accessible and focused than Flights, the novel that won Tokarczuk the Man International Booker prize, it is no less profound in its examination of how atavistic male impulses, emboldened by the new rightwing politics of Europe, are endangering people, communities and nature itself. Novels, collections, anthologies - anything that is able to give us a true scare in this mad, mad, mad century. No matter how weird the setting – a futuristic prison lab, a middle-class home where human lawn ornaments are employed as a status symbol – in these surreal satires of post-crash life Saunders reminds us of the meaning we find in small moments. Already beloved by millions of readers, this novel follows a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as they both try to survive the devastation of World War II. His sixth novel, a love triangle set among human clones in an alternative 1990s England, brings exquisite understatement to its exploration of mortality, loss and what it means to be human. Read the review, There are echoes of DH Lawrence and EM Forster in McEwan’s finely tuned dissection of memory and guilt. The invention of Viagra the spirit of an age Booker Prize and the self-destruction of mankind spring reading.... 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