The BBC has put together a list of 70 books for the Big Jubilee Read in celebration of Queen Elizabeth's platinum jubilee.
I don't really need another list of books to try to read, but this list is so intriguing. I'm going to go ahead and keep track of the ones I manage to read.
1952-1961
The Palm-Wine Drinkard - Amos Tutuola (1952, Nigeria)
The Hills Were Joyful Together - Roger Mais (1953, Jamaica)
In the Castle of My Skin - George Lamming (1953, Barbados)
My Bones and My Flute - Edgar Mittelholzer (1955, Guyana)
The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon (1956, Trinidad and Tobago/England)
The Guide - R. K. Narayan (1958, India)
To Sir, With Love - E. R. Braithwaite (1959, Guyana)
One Moonlit Night - Caradog Prichard (1961, Wales)
A House for Mr Biswas - VS Naipaul (1961, Trinidad and Tobago/England)
Sunlight on a Broken Column - Attia Hosain (1961, India)
1962-1971
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (1962, England)
The Interrogation - J.M.G. Le Clézio (1963, France/Mauritius)
The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark (1963, Scotland)
Arrow of God - Chinua Achebe (1964, Nigeria)
Death of a Naturalist - Seamus Heaney (1966, Northern Ireland)
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys (1966, Dominica/Wales)
A Grain of Wheat - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1967, Kenya)
Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay (1967, Australia)
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born - Ayi Kwei Armah (1968, Ghana)
When Rain Clouds Gather - Bessie Head (1968, Botswana/South Africa)
1972-1981
The Nowhere Man - Kamala Markandaya (1972, India)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré (1974, England)
The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough (1977, Australia)
The Crow Eaters - Bapsi Sidhwa (1978, Pakistan)
The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch (1978, England)
Who Do You think You Are? - Alice Munro (1978, Canada)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (1979, England)
Tsotsi - Athol Fugard (1980, South Africa)
Clear Light of Day - Anita Desai (1980, India)
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (1981, England/India)
1982-1991
Schindler’s Ark - Thomas Keneally (1982, Australia)
Beka Lamb - Zee Edgell (1982, Belize)
The Bone People - Keri Hulme (1984, New Zealand)
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (1985, Canada)
Summer Lightning - Olive Senior (1986, Jamaica)
The Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera (1987, New Zealand)
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (1989, England)
Omeros - Derek Walcott (1990, Saint Lucia)
The Adoption Papers - Jackie Kay (1991, Scotland)
Cloudstreet - Tim Winton (1991, Australia)
1992-2001
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje (1992, Canada/Sri Lanka)
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields (1993, Canada)
Paradise - Abdulrazak Gurnah (1994, Tanzania/England)
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry (1995, India/Canada)
Salt - Earl Lovelace (1996, Trinidad and Tobago)
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (1997, India)
The Blue Bedspread - Raj Kamal Jha (1999, India)
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee (1999, South Africa/Australia)
White Teeth - Zadie Smith (2000, England)
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (2001, Canada)
2002-2011
Small Island - Andrea Levy (2004, England)
The Secret River - Kate Grenville (2005, Australia)
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (2005, Australia)
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006, Nigeria)
A Golden Age - Tahmima Anam (2007, Bangladesh)
The Boat - Nam Le (2008, Australia)
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel (2009, England)
The Book of Night Women - Marlon James (2009, Jamaica)
The Memory of Love - Aminatta Forna (2010, Sierra Leone/Scotland)
Chinaman - Shehan Karunatilaka (2010, Sri Lanka)
2012-2021
