#HayFestival100

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#HayFestival100

To mark the 1922 centenary (the "annus mirabilis" of modern literature), we invited the Hay Festival audience to take a fresh look at the past 100 years of literature, drawing up a list of the 100 most influential books. All genres, fiction or non-fiction, old or new, were welcome.  This was the result... 

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life)

Yuval Noah Harari

No Logo

Naomi Klein

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

One Moonlit Night

Caradog Prichard

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years...

Vera Brittain

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Angela Carter

Beware of Pity

Stefan Zweig

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

The Passion

Jeanette Winterson

Border Country

Raymond Williams

The Color Purple: The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel

Alice Walker

The Lord of the Rings

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Centenary Edition

Dylan Thomas

The Grapes of Wrath

Mr John Steinbeck

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays

Rebecca Solnit

How to be Both

Ali Smith

Where The Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak

Where The Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak

Persepolis I & II

Marjane Satrapi

Orientalism

Edward W. Said

History of Western Philosophy

Bertrand Russell

The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie

The God of Small Things: Winner of the Booker Prize

Arundhati Roy

Gilead: An Oprah's Book Club Pick

Marilynne Robinson

Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories

Annie Proulx

Un Nos Ola Leuad

Caradog Prichard

The Overstory: The million-copy global bestseller and winner...

Richard Powers

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa

Doctor Zhivago (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

Boris Pasternak

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A House for Mr Biswas

V. S. Naipaul

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Azar Nafisi

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Conundrum

Jan Morris

The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal

Desmond Morris

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann

Long Walk To Freedom

Nelson Mandela

The Lost Words: Rediscover our natural world with this...

Robert MacFarlane i Jackie Morris

Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges

Small Island: Winner of the 'best of the best' Orange Prize

Andrea Levy

The Golden Notebook

Doris Lessing

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

The Left Hand of Darkness: A groundbreaking feminist literary...

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

John le Carre

Lady Chatterley's Lover

D. H. Lawrence

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On the Road

Jack Kerouac

The Trial

Franz Kafka

Ulysses

James Joyce

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

The Glass Bead Game

Hermann Hesse

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

Werner Heisenberg

A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes

Stephen Hawking

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

MOHSIN HAMID

The Well of Loneliness

Radclyffe Hall

The Female Eunuch

Germaine Greer

Lord of the Flies: Introduced by Stephen King

William Golding

An Autobiography: 150th Anniversary Edition with an...

M. K. Gandhi

The Affluent Society: Updated with a New Introduction by the...

John Kenneth Galbraith

The Feminine Mystique

Betty Friedan

Man's Search For Meaning: Classic Editions

Viktor E Frankl

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

Anne Frank

The Waste Land and Other Poems

T. S. Eliot

Poor Cow: A Virago Modern Classic

Nell Dunn

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

Waterlog

Roger Deakin

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir

A Book of Mediterranean Food

Elizabeth David

The Songlines

Bruce Chatwin

Everyday Sexism

LAURA BATES

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Jung Chang

Silent Spring

Rachel Carson

How to Win Friends and Influence People: (Vermilion Life...

Dale Carnegie

The Outsider

Albert Camus

The Road to Oxiana

Robert Byron

The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

Mikhail Bulgakov

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the...

Dee Brown

Forever

Judy Blume

Noughts & Crosses

Malorie Blackman

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

Illuminations

Walter Benjamin

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

Samuel Beckett

Mythologies

Roland Barthes

Poor Economics: The Surprising Truth about Life on Less Than...

Abhijit V. Banerjee i Esther Duflo

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 42nd Anniversary Edition

Douglas Adams

Things Fall Apart: A Novel

Chinua Achebe