Awards search:The 100 best books of the 21st century by The Guardian

My Struggle: Book 1

by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Audiobook, 2014
Tags
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist, Audiobook, Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Library Book (National), RBdigital
Series
My Struggle (1)
Status
Available
Call number
839.82

Wolf Hall

by Hilary Mantel
Paperback, 2009
Tags
16th Century, 21st Century Literature, Fiction, English Literature, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Biographical Fiction, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon — 24 more, Anne Boleyn, Thomas More, Tudors, Royalty, Monarchy, Religion, Reformation, London, England, Booker Prize, Orange Prize Shortlist, National Book Critics Circle Award, Walter Scott Prize, Rec'd by PaulCranswick, Rec'd by kidzdoc, Used, Purchased from The Word, Acquired in 2010, Tutored Read, Tutored Read with Chatterbox, Read in 2012, Begun June 2012, Completed July 2012, To Reread
Collections
Read, Read in 2012
Series
Wolf Hall Trilogy (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Wolf Hall

by Hilary Mantel
Digital audiobook, 2009
Tags
16th Century, 21st Century Literature, Fiction, English Literature, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Biographical Fiction, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII — 22 more, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Thomas More, Tudors, Royalty, Monarchy, Religion, Reformation, London, England, Booker Prize, Orange Prize Shortlist, National Book Critics Circle Award, Walter Scott Prize, Rec'd by PaulCranswick, Rec'd by kidzdoc, Audiobook, Narrated by Simon Slater, Library Book (National), OverDrive, Acquired in 2015, To Reread
Collections
To Reread, Audiobooks
Series
Wolf Hall Trilogy (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

A Visit from the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
20th Century, 21st Century, Fiction, American Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Multiple Narrators, Experimental, Music, Music Industry, Relationships, Time — 8 more, Seen on kidzdoc's thread, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Library Book, TIOLI, Read in 2011, Completed July 2011, Literary Fiction
Collections
Read, Read in 2011
Series
Goon Squad (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

by Edmund de Waal
CD audiobook, 2012
Tags
19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century Literature, Nonfiction, Biography, Memoirs, Art, Art History, Relationships, Family, Family Saga — 38 more, Family Dynasty, Ephrussis, Ephrussi Family, Charles Ephrussi, Culture, Art Connoisseus, Proust, Swann, Empires, Bankers, Immigrants, Jews, Judaism, Antisemitism, WWI, WWII, Holocaust, Japonisme, Carvings, Netsuke, Odessa, Russia, Ukraine, Vienna, Austria, Japan, Galaxy National Book Awards, Ondaatje Prize, Costa Award, ALA Notable Book, Rec'd by Liselotte, Rec'd by sibyx, Audiobook, Narrated by Michael Maloney, Purchased from Audible.com, Acquired in 2012, Read in 2015, Completed January 2015
Collections
Read, Audiobooks, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
909.0492400922

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Digital audiobook, 2010
Tags
21st Century, 21st Century Publication, Nonfiction, Medicine, Science, Popular Science, Biology, Health, History of Medicine, Oncology, Cancer — 8 more, Pulitzer Prize, Guardian First Book Award, Wellcome Trust Book Prize Shortlist, Audiobook, Narrated by Stephen Hoye, Library Book (National), OverDrive, Acquired in 2015
Collection
Audiobooks
Status
Available
Call number
616.994

Human Chain

by Seamus Heaney
Paperback, 2012
Status
Available
Call number
821.914

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

by Jeanette Winterson
Ebook, 2012
Collections
Library Books, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

The Infatuations

by Javier Marias
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
The New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Audiobook, Library Book (National), OverDrive
Status
Available
Call number
863.64

Gone Girl

by Gillian Flynn
Paperback, 2012
Tags
21st Century, Fiction, American Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Crime Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Missing Persons, Relationships — 23 more, Marriage, Unreliable Narrator, New York City, Missouri, America, Multiple Narrators, Pageturner, Rec'd by msf59, Rec'd by jnwelch, Rec'd by Chatterbox, Galaxy National Book Awards, Shirley Jackson Award Finalist, Bailey's Prize Longlist, Edgar Award Nominee, Barry Award Nominee, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist, Grand prix des lectrices Elle, Audiobook, Narrated by Julia Whelan, Narrated by Kirby Heyborne, Purchased from Audible.com, Read in 2012, Completed August 2012
Collections
Read, Audiobooks, Read in 2012
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One

by Elena Ferrante
Paperback, 2012
Tags
20th Century Literature, 1950s, 21st Century Literature, Fiction, Italian Literature, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Coming of Age, Relationships, Friendship, Girlfriends — 18 more, Female Friendship, Poverty, Childhood, Adolescence, Love, Marriage, Schooling, Naples, Italy, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist, Rec'd by Flavorwire, Library Book (National), OverDrive, Audiobook, Narrated by Hillary Huber, Acquired in 2015, Read in 2015, Completed December 2015
Collections
Read, Audiobooks, Read in 2015
Series
Neapolitan Novels (1)
Status
Available
Call number
853.92

Tenth of December: Stories

by George Saunders
CD audiobook, 2013
Tags
21st Century, Fiction, American Literature, Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Humour, Satire, Folio Prize, National Book Award Finalist, Audiobook, Narrated by the Author — 5 more, Library Book (National), OverDrive, Acquired in 2013, Read in 2014, Completed February 2014
Collections
Read, Audiobooks, Read in 2014
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Life After Life

by Kate Atkinson
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
20th Century, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 21st Century Literature, Fiction, English Literature, Historical Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Relationships — 29 more, Love, Marriage, Family, Siblings, Aunts, Women, Birth, Death, Growing Up, WWI, Spanish Flu, WWII, Hitler, Eva Braun, London Blitz, Reincarnation, Parallel Lives, Iterations, London, England, Germany, Orange Prize Shortlist, Walter Scott Prize Shortlist, The New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Library Book (National), eBook, OverDrive, Read in 2013, Completed November 2013
Collections
Read, Read in 2013
Series
Todd Family (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Life After Life

by Kate Atkinson
Digital audiobook, 2013
Tags
20th Century, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 21st Century Literature, Fiction, English Literature, Historical Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Relationships — 30 more, Love, Marriage, Family, Siblings, Aunts, Women, Birth, Death, Growing Up, WWI, Spanish Flu, WWII, Hitler, Eva Braun, London Blitz, Reincarnation, Parallel Lives, Iterations, London, England, Germany, Orange Prize Shortlist, Walter Scott Prize Shortlist, The New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Audiobook, Narrated by Fenella Woolgar, Purchased from Audible.com, Audible Sale, Acquired in 2017, To Reread
Collection
Audiobooks
Series
Todd Family (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Harvest

by Jim Crace
Paperback, 2013
Tags
16th Century, 17th Century, 21st Century Literature, Fiction, English Literature, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Villages, Village Life, Farmers, Fire — 16 more, Witchcraft, Sorcery, Outsiders, Power, Inheritance Rights, Suspicion, Modernization, Primeval Forests, England, Great Yarn, Booker Prize Shortlist, Walter Scott Prize Shortlist, Library Book, Read in 2013, Completed September 2013, Acquired in 2013
Collections
Read, Read in 2013
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth, Book 1

by N. K. Jemisin
Digital audiobook, 2015
Tags
21st Century Literature, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Afrofuturism, Apocalypse, Dystopia, Earthquakes, Survival, World Building, Nebula Nominee — 11 more, The New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Hugo Award, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist, Locus Award Finalist, Audiobook, Narrated by Robin Miles, Library Book (National), OverDrive, Acquired in 2018, Read in 2019, Completed August 2019
Collections
Read, Read in 2019, Audiobooks
Series
The Broken Earth (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari
Digital audiobook, 2015
Tags
21st Century Literature, Nonfiction, Israeli Literature, History, Prehistory, Anthropology, Archaeology, Evolution, Human Evolution, Human Species, Homo Sapiens — 33 more, Neanderthals, Humankind, Humanity, Human Behaviour, Human Nature, Civilization, Hunter-gatherers, Food, Agriculture, Agricultural Revolution, Culture, Science, Biology, Social Science, Sociology, Psychology, Religion, Technology, Future, Futurism, Experiments, Artificial Intelligence, Cyborgs, Immortality, Rec'd by lunacat, Audiobook, Narrated by Derek Perkins, Audible Sale, $4.95, Purchased from Audible.com, Acquired in 2016, Read in 2018, Completed April 2018
Collections
Read, Audiobooks, Read in 2018
Status
Available
Call number
909

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

by Elizabeth Kolbert
Digital audiobook, 2014
Tags
21st Century, 21st Century Literature, Nonfiction, American Literature, Natural History, Ecology, Biology, Climate Change, Global Warming, Evolution, Extinction — 18 more, Animal Extinction, Fossils, Dinosaurs, Birds, Amazon Rainforest, Endangered Species, Natural Habitats, Homo Sapiens, Neanderthals, Pulitzer Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medals Nonfiction Shortlist, ALA Notable Books for Adults, Audiobook, Narrated by Anne Twomey, Library Book (National), OverDrive, Read in 2015, Completed November 2015
Collections
Read, Audiobooks, Natural History, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
576.8

Outline

by Rachel Cusk
Digital audiobook, 2015
Tags
21st Century, 21st Century Literature, Fiction, Canadian Literature, Writing, Conversations, Anecdotes, Relationships, Marriage, Infidelity, Athens — 14 more, Greece, Boring as hell, Folio Prize Shortlist, Bailey's Prize Shortlist, Giller Prize Shortlist, Governor General's Award Finalist, Andrew Carnegie Medals Fiction Longlist, Audiobook, Narrated by Kate Reading, Library Book (National), OverDrive, Acquired in 2015, Read in 2015, Completed December 2015
Collections
Read, Audiobooks, Read in 2015
Series
Outline Trilogy (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

The Argonauts

by Maggie Nelson
Digital audiobook, 2015
Tags
21st Century, 21st Century Literature, Nonfiction, American Literature, Essays, Autobiographical, Queer, LGBTQ, Motherhood, Pregnancy, Giving Birth — 19 more, Gender, Gender Roles, Transgender, Feminism, Relationships, Couples, Family, Sexuality, Death, Dying, National Book Critics Circle Award, Folio Prize Shortlist, Audiobook, Narrated by the Author, Library Book (National), OverDrive, Acquired in 2018, Read in 2018, Completed May 2018
Collections
Read, Audiobooks, Read in 2018
Status
Available
Call number
306.8508664

A Little Life

by Hanya Yanagihara
Digital audiobook, 2015
Tags
21st Century, 21st Century Literature, Fiction, American Literature, Literary Fiction, Relationships, Friendship, Abuse, Trauma, Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse — 14 more, Suicide, New York City, America, Booker Prize Shortlist, Bailey's Prize Shortlist, National Book Award Finalist, Andrew Carnegie Medals Fiction Shortlist, Rec'd by msf59, Audiobook, Narrated by John Lee, Purchased from Audible.com, Audible Sale, $4.95, Acquired in 2016
Collection
Audiobooks
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

by Carlo Rovelli
Digital audiobook, 2016
Tags
21st Century Literature, Nonfiction, Italian Literature, Essays, Science, Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Relativity, Black Holes, Cosmology — 7 more, Audiobook, Narrated by Carlo Rovelli, Library Book (National), OverDrive, Acquired in 2016, Read in 2016, Completed July 2016
Collections
Read, Audiobooks, Read in 2016
Status
Available
Call number
530

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Digital audiobook, 2015
Tags
21st Century, 21st Century Literature, Nonfiction, American Literature, Memoirs, African Americans, American History, Race, Racism, Race Relations, Slavery — 12 more, Current Affairs, American Life, National Book Award, Andrew Carnegie Medals Nonfiction Longlist, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Audiobook, Narrated by the Author, Library Book (National), OverDrive, Acquired in 2015, Read in 2015, Completed November 2015
Collections
Read, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
305.800973

The Underground Railroad

by Colson Whitehead
Digital audiobook, 2016
Tags
19th Century, 21st Century Literature, Fiction, American Literature, African American, Historical Fiction, Alternate History, Slavery, Racism, Race Relations, Underground Railroad — 12 more, Fugitives, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, New York Times Best Books of the Year, Andrew Carnegie Medals Fiction Shortlist, Audiobook, Narrated by Bahni Turpin, Library Book (National), OverDrive, Acquired in 2016, Read in 2017, Completed January 2017
Collections
Read, Audiobooks, Read in 2017
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Days Without End

by Sebastian Barry
Digital audiobook, 2017
Tags
19th Century, 1850s, 1860s, 21st Century Literature, Fiction, Irish Literature, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Immigrants, Irish Immigrants — 22 more, Friendship, Wild West, Civil War, American Civil War, Soldiers, Native Americans, Indian Wars, Massacres, Minstrel Shows, Sexuality, Homosexuality, Love, Crossdressing, LGTBQ, Audiobook, Narrated by Aldan Kelly, Purchased from Audible.com, Audible Sale, $2.95, Acquired in 2018, Read in 2019, Completed January 2019
Collections
Read, Read in 2019, Audiobooks
Series
McNulty Family (6)
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

by Robert Macfarlane
Digital audiobook, 2019
Tags
Audiobook, Purchased from Audible.com, Audible Daily Deal, Acquired in 2019
Collection
Audiobooks
Status
Available
Call number
551.44
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