The Big Jubilee Read

Given by BBC Arts and The Reading Agency

70 obres 397,978 Llibres 11,018 Ressenyes 4.0
Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-serving monarch in British history, with a reign that began on 6 February 1952. The Big Jubilee Read celebrates great books from across the Commonwealth, to coincide mostra'n més with the Platinum Jubilee. It features 70 titles - ten from each decade of the Queen's reign. mostra'n menys
Year Awarded:
2022
ObraEtiqueta d'ordenació
El Bevedor de vi de palma : i el seu difunt sagnador de vi de palma a la ciutat dels morts (1952) de Amos Tutuola
Nigeria
1952
In the Castle of My Skin (1953) de George Lamming
Barbados
1953
The Hills Were Joyful Together (1953) de Roger Mais
Jamaica
1953
My Bones and My Flute (1955) de Edgar Mittelholzer
Guyana
1955
The Lonely Londoners (1956) de Sam Selvon
Trinidad and Tobago/England
1956
The Guide (1958) de R. K. Narayan
India
1958
To Sir, With Love (1959) de E. R. Braithwaite
Guyana
1959
Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961) de Attia Hosain
India
1961
A House for Mr Biswas (1961) de V. S. Naipaul
Trinidad and Tobago/England
1961
One Moonlit Night (1961) de Caradog Prichard
Wales
1961
La taronja mecànica (1962) de Anthony Burgess
England
1962
The Interrogation (1963) de J.M.G. Le Clézio
France/Mauritius
1963
The Girls of Slender Means (1963) de Muriel Spark
England
1963
Arrow of God (1964) de Chinua Achebe
Nigeria
1964
Death of a Naturalist (1966) de Seamus Heaney
Northern Ireland
1966
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) de Jean Rhys
Dominica/Wales
1966
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967) de Joan Lindsay
Australia
1967
A Grain of Wheat (1967) de Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Kenya
1967
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968) de Ayi Kwei Armah
Ghana
1968
When Rain Clouds Gather (1968) de Bessie Head
Botswana/South Africa
1968
The Nowhere Man (1972) de Kamala Markandaya
India
1972
El talp (Calderer Sastre Soldat Espia) (1974) de John le Carré
England
1974
El pajaro espino (1977) de Colleen McCullough
Australia
1977
The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose (1977) de Alice Munro
Canada
1977
El mar, el mar (1978) de Iris Murdoch
England
1978
The Crow Eaters: A Novel (1978) de Bapsi Sidhwa
Pakistan
1978
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) de Douglas Adams
England
1979
Clear Light of Day (1980) de Anita Desai
India
1980
Tsotsi (1980) de Athol Fugard
South Africa
1980
Els Fills de la mitjanit (1981) de Salman Rushdie
England/India
1981
Beka Lamb (1982) de Zee Edgell
Belize
1982
Schindler's Ark (1982) de Thomas Keneally
Australia
1982
The Bone People (1984) de Keri Hulme
New Zealand
1984
The Handmaid's Tale (1985) de Margaret Atwood
Canada
1985
The Whale Rider (1987) de Witi Ihimaera
New Zealand
1987
Summer Lightning and Other Stories (1987) de Olive Senior
Jamaica
1987
El que resta del dia (1989) de Kazuo Ishiguro
England
1989
Omeros (1990) de Derek Walcott
Saint Lucia
1990
Adoption Papers (1991) de Jackie Kay
Scotland
1991
Cloudstreet (1991) de Tim Winton
Australia
1991
The English Patient (1992) de Michael Ondaatje
Canada/Sri Lanka
1992
The Stone Diaries (1993) de Carol Shields
Canada
1993
Paradise (1994) de Abdulrazak Gurnah
Tanzania/England
1994
Un equilibri perfecte (1995) de Rohinton Mistry
India/Canada
1995
Salt (1996) de Earl Lovelace
Trinidad and Tobago
1996
El déu de les coses petites (1997) de Arundhati Roy
India
1997
Desgràcia (1999) de J. M. Coetzee
South Africa/Australia
1999
The Blue Bedspread (1999) de Raj Kamal Jha
India
1999
Dents blanques (2000) de Zadie Smith
England
2000
Història de Pi (2001) de Yann Martel
Canada
2001
Small Island (2004) de Andrea Levy
England
2004
The Secret River (2005) de Kate Grenville
Australia
2005
La lladre de llibres (2005) de Markus Zusak
Australia
2005
Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigeria
2006
Dies d'amor i de guerra (2007) de Tahmima Anam
Bangladesh
2007
The Boat (2008) de Nam Le
Australia
2008
The Book of Night Women (2009) de Marlon James
Jamaica
2009
Wolf Hall (2009) de Hilary Mantel
England
2009
Chinaman (2010) de Shehan Karunatilaka
Sri Lanka
2010
The Memory of Love (2011) de Aminatta Forna
Sierra Leone/Scotland
2011
Our Lady of the Nile (2012) de Scholastique Mukasonga
Rwanda
2012
The Luminaries (2013) de Eleanor Catton
New Zealand
2013
Behold the Dreamers (2016) de Imbolo Mbue
Cameroon
2016
The Bone Readers (2016) de Jacob Ross
Grenada
2016
The Night Tiger (2019) de Yangsze Choo
Malaysia
2019
Girl, Woman, Other (2019) de Bernardine Evaristo
England
2019
How We Disappeared (2019) de Jing-Jing Lee
Singapore
2019
Shuggie Bain (2020) de Douglas Stuart
Scotland
2020
A Passage North (2021) de Anuk Arudpragasam
Sri Lanka
2021
The Promise (2021) de Damon Galgut
South Africa
2021

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