Ten Favorite Books by Granta’s Best Young British Novelists
(Beginning in 1983, Granta Magazine has devoted an issue a decade to what it regards as the twenty Best Young British Novelists. Here, in alphabetical order, are my ten favorite books by any of the not quite eighty writers (because a handful of them have made more than one appearance) on those lists.)
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes (1983 list)
A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk (2003 list)
The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts by Louis de Bernières (1993 list)
The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall (2013 list)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1983 and 1993 lists)
The Inverted World by Christopher Priest (1983 list)
Anthropology: 101 True Love Stories by Dan Rhodes (2003 list)
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1983 list)
Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson (2003 list)
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson (1993 list)
— January 30, 2021