100 Novels That Shaped Our New World

Libraries Connected announced “The 100 Novels that Shaped our New World”, a reading list chosen by over 400 library staff members and users. The list “follows the BBC Novels that Shaped our World library campaign” and features many titles of genre interest, including Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam (Bloomsbury), The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton), Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (Hamish Hamilton), The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (Headline), Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber), and many more.

For more information, including the complete list, see the official Libraries Connected announcement. For the 2019 BBC list, which also includes many genre titles, see the BBC website.

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