The Digested Twenty-first Century by Crace, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Introduction Serious Fiction

The Laying on of Hands – Alan Bennett Life of Pi – Yann Martel The Little Friend – Donna Tartt Cosmopolis – Don DeLillo Notes on a Scandal – Zoë Heller Crossing the Lines – Melvyn Bragg Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer Memories of My Melancholy Whores – Gabriel García Márquez The Possibility of an Island – Michel Houellebecq No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy Everyman – Philip Roth Travels in the Scriptorium – Paul Auster The Cleft – Doris Lessing On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan Engleby – Sebastian Faulks Michael Tolliver Lives – Armistead Maupin Bright Shiny Morning – James Frey The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments – Vladimir Nabokov Solar – Ian McEwan So Much For That – Lionel Shriver Imperial Bedrooms – Bret Easton Ellis Freedom – Jonathan Franzen The Stranger’s Child – Alan Hollinghurst The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides Bring Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel Lionel Asbo – Martin Amis Umbrella – Will Self NW – Zadie Smith Back to Blood – Tom Wolfe A Hologram for the King – Dave Eggers The Childhood of Jesus – JM Coetzee

Chick Lit

The Clematis Tree – Ann Widdecombe I Don’t Know How She Does It – Allison Pearson Liz Jones’s Diary – Liz Jones Wicked! – Jilly Cooper Notting Hell – Rachel Johnson Handle with Care – Jodi Picoult Fifty Shades of Grey – EL James Peaches for Monsieur Le Curé – Joanne Harris In the Name of Love – Katie Price It – Alexa Chung Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy – Helen Fielding

Lad Lit

A Long Way Down – Nick Hornby My Favourite Wife – Tony Parsons Meltdown – Ben Elton Round the Bend – Jeremy Clarkson

Autobiography/Memoir

Experience – Martin Amis Things My Mother Never Told Me – Blake Morrison A Round-Heeled Woman – Jane Juska Broken Music – Sting Chronicles, Volume 1 – Bob Dylan The Intimate Adventures of a London Call-Girl – Belle de Jour Don’t You Know Who I Am? – Piers Morgan Snowdon – Anne de Courcy Going Rogue: An American Life – Sarah Palin Must You Go? – Antonia Fraser A Journey – Tony Blair Life: Keith Richards Bird House – Annie Proulx Mud, Sweat and Tears – Bear Grylls A Walk-On Part – Chris Mullin May I Have Your Attention, Please? – James Corden Vagina – Naomi Wolf Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography, Volume 1 – Charles Moore A Man in Love – Karl Ove Knausgård Girl Least Likely To – Liz Jones An Appetite for Wonder – Richard Dawkins

Letters/Diaries

The Letters of Kingsley Amis The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan Alan Clark: The Last Diaries Primo Time – Anthony Sher The Letters of Noël Coward Ever, Dirk: The Bogarde Letters The Pursuit of Laughter: Essays, Articles, Reviews & Diary – Diana Mosley God Bless America – Piers Morgan Letters to Monica – Philip Larkin PG Wodehouse: A Life in Letters Public Enemies – Michel Houellebecq and Bernard Henri-Levy Liberation, Volume 3: Diaries: 1970-1983 – Christopher Isherwood Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother The Letters of TS Eliot Volume 4:1928–1929 Distant Intimacy – Frederic Raphael and Joseph Epstein Here and Now: Letters 2008–2011 – Paul Auster and JM Coetzee Buildings: Letters 1960–1975 – Isaiah Berlin

Self-Help

The Privilege of Youth – Dave Pelzer Freakonomics – Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner The Game – Neil Strauss The Architecture of Happiness – Alain de Botton Small Dogs Can Save Your Life – Bel Mooney I Can Make You Happy – Paul McKenna Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother – Amy Chua How to be a Woman – Caitlin Moran French Children Don’t Throw Food – Pamela Druckerman Celebrate – Pippa Middleton Antifragile – Nassim Nicholas Taleb Manuscript Found in Accra – Paulo Coelho David and Goliath – Malcolm Gladwell

Science/History/Religion

Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World – Niall Ferguson A Briefer History of Time – Stephen Hawking God is Not Great – Christopher Hitchens The Case for God – Karen Armstrong Religion for Atheists – Alain de Botton Wonders of Life – Brian Cox

Thrillers

Liberation Day – Andy McNab Resurrection Men – Ian Rankin Avenger – Frederick Forsyth The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown State of Fear – Michael Crichton Hannibal Rising – Thomas Harris Beneath the Bleeding – Val McDermid The Troubled Man – Henning Mankell Carte Blanche – Jeffery Deaver Phantom – Jo Nesbø A Delicate Truth – John le Carré The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Galbraith

Cooking and Gardening

A Cook’s Tour – Anthony Bourdain Gordon Ramsay Makes it Easy – Gordon Ramsay Jamie’s Italy – Jamie Oliver Breakfast at the Wolseley – AA Gill Nigella’s Christmas – Nigella Lawson Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine – René Redzepi Notes From My Kitchen Table – Gwyneth Paltrow Gardening at Longmeadow – Monty Don Bread – Paul Hollywood

Travel

Down Under – Bill Bryson Stephen Fry in America – Stephen Fry The Last Supper – Rachel Cusk

Phenomenon

Acknowledgements Index