Post by windysisters on Jun 1, 2022 11:26:01 GMT
Throughout this year of Platinum Jubilee celebrations, the BBC and The Reading Agency are celebrating 70 great books from across the Commonwealth.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4RNfHvd2sxNlHDFFqzTGVKc/the-big-jubilee-read-2012-2022
1952-1961:
The Palm-Wine Drinkard - Amos Tutuola (1952, Nigeria)
The Hills Were Joyful Together - Roger Mais (1953, Jamaica)
In the Castle of My Skin - George Lamming (1953, Barbados)
My Bones and My Flute - Edgar Mittelholzer (1955, Guyana)
The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon (1956, Trinidad and Tobago/England)
The Guide - R. K. Narayan (1958, India)
To Sir, With Love - E. R. Braithwaite (1959, Guyana)
One Moonlit Night - Caradog Prichard (1961, Wales)
A House for Mr Biswas - VS Naipaul (1961, Trinidad and Tobago/England)
Sunlight on a Broken Column - Attia Hosain (1961, India)
1962-1971:
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 1962, UK (England)
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark, 1963, UK (Scotland)
The Interrogation by J. M. G. Le Clezio, 1963, Mauritius
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe, 1964, Nigeria
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney, 1966, UK (Northern Ireland)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, 1966, Dominica/UK (Wales)
A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 1967, Kenya
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, 1967, Australia
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah, 1968, Ghana
When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head, 1968, Botswana/South Africa
1972-1981:
The Nowhere Man - Kamala Markandaya (1972, India)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré (1974, England)
The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough (1977, Australia)
The Crow Eaters - Bapsi Sidhwa (1978, Pakistan)
The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch (1978, England)
Who Do You think You Are? - Alice Munro (1978, Canada)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (1979, England)
Tsotsi - Athol Fugard (1980, South Africa)
Clear Light of Day - Anita Desai (1980, India)
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (1981, England/India)
1982-1991:
Schindler’s Ark - Thomas Keneally (1982, Australia)
Beka Lamb - Zee Edgell (1982, Belize)
The Bone People - Keri Hulme (1984, New Zealand)
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (1985, Canada)
Summer Lightning - Olive Senior (1986, Jamaica)
The Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera (1987, New Zealand)
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (1989, England)
Omeros - Derek Walcott (1990, Saint Lucia)
The Adoption Papers - Jackie Kay (1991, Scotland)
Cloudstreet - Tim Winton (1991, Australia)
1992-2001:
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje (1992, Canada/Sri Lanka)
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields (1993, Canada)
Paradise - Abdulrazak Gurnah (1994, Tanzania/England)
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry (1995, India/Canada)
Salt - Earl Lovelace (1996, Trinidad and Tobago)
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (1997, India)
The Blue Bedspread - Raj Kamal Jha (1999, India)
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee (1999, South Africa/Australia)
White Teeth - Zadie Smith (2000, England)
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (2001, Canada)
2002-2011:
Small Island - Andrea Levy (2004, England)
The Secret River - Kate Grenville (2005, Australia)
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (2005, Australia)
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006, Nigeria)
A Golden Age - Tahmima Anam (2007, Bangladesh)
The Boat - Nam Le (2008, Australia)
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel (2009, England)
The Book of Night Women - Marlon James (2009, Jamaica)
The Memory of Love - Aminatta Forna (2010, Sierra Leone/Scotland)
Chinaman - Shehan Karunatilaka (2010, Sri Lanka)
2012-2021:
Our Lady of the Nile - Scholastique Mukasonga (2012, Rwanda)
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton (2013, New Zealand)
Behold the Dreamers - Imbolo Mbue (2016, Cameroon)
The Bone Readers - Jacob Ross (2016, Grenada)
How We Disappeared - Jing-Jing Lee (2019, Singapore)
Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo (2019, England)
The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo (2019, Malaysia)
Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart (2020, Scotland)
A Passage North - Anuk Arudpragasam (2021, Sri Lanka)
The Promise - Damon Galgut (2021, South Africa)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4RNfHvd2sxNlHDFFqzTGVKc/the-big-jubilee-read-2012-2022
1952-1961:
The Palm-Wine Drinkard - Amos Tutuola (1952, Nigeria)
The Hills Were Joyful Together - Roger Mais (1953, Jamaica)
In the Castle of My Skin - George Lamming (1953, Barbados)
My Bones and My Flute - Edgar Mittelholzer (1955, Guyana)
The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon (1956, Trinidad and Tobago/England)
The Guide - R. K. Narayan (1958, India)
To Sir, With Love - E. R. Braithwaite (1959, Guyana)
One Moonlit Night - Caradog Prichard (1961, Wales)
A House for Mr Biswas - VS Naipaul (1961, Trinidad and Tobago/England)
Sunlight on a Broken Column - Attia Hosain (1961, India)
1962-1971:
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 1962, UK (England)
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark, 1963, UK (Scotland)
The Interrogation by J. M. G. Le Clezio, 1963, Mauritius
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe, 1964, Nigeria
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney, 1966, UK (Northern Ireland)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, 1966, Dominica/UK (Wales)
A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 1967, Kenya
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, 1967, Australia
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah, 1968, Ghana
When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head, 1968, Botswana/South Africa
1972-1981:
The Nowhere Man - Kamala Markandaya (1972, India)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré (1974, England)
The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough (1977, Australia)
The Crow Eaters - Bapsi Sidhwa (1978, Pakistan)
The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch (1978, England)
Who Do You think You Are? - Alice Munro (1978, Canada)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (1979, England)
Tsotsi - Athol Fugard (1980, South Africa)
Clear Light of Day - Anita Desai (1980, India)
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (1981, England/India)
1982-1991:
Schindler’s Ark - Thomas Keneally (1982, Australia)
Beka Lamb - Zee Edgell (1982, Belize)
The Bone People - Keri Hulme (1984, New Zealand)
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (1985, Canada)
Summer Lightning - Olive Senior (1986, Jamaica)
The Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera (1987, New Zealand)
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (1989, England)
Omeros - Derek Walcott (1990, Saint Lucia)
The Adoption Papers - Jackie Kay (1991, Scotland)
Cloudstreet - Tim Winton (1991, Australia)
1992-2001:
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje (1992, Canada/Sri Lanka)
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields (1993, Canada)
Paradise - Abdulrazak Gurnah (1994, Tanzania/England)
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry (1995, India/Canada)
Salt - Earl Lovelace (1996, Trinidad and Tobago)
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (1997, India)
The Blue Bedspread - Raj Kamal Jha (1999, India)
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee (1999, South Africa/Australia)
White Teeth - Zadie Smith (2000, England)
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (2001, Canada)
2002-2011:
Small Island - Andrea Levy (2004, England)
The Secret River - Kate Grenville (2005, Australia)
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (2005, Australia)
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006, Nigeria)
A Golden Age - Tahmima Anam (2007, Bangladesh)
The Boat - Nam Le (2008, Australia)
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel (2009, England)
The Book of Night Women - Marlon James (2009, Jamaica)
The Memory of Love - Aminatta Forna (2010, Sierra Leone/Scotland)
Chinaman - Shehan Karunatilaka (2010, Sri Lanka)
2012-2021:
Our Lady of the Nile - Scholastique Mukasonga (2012, Rwanda)
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton (2013, New Zealand)
Behold the Dreamers - Imbolo Mbue (2016, Cameroon)
The Bone Readers - Jacob Ross (2016, Grenada)
How We Disappeared - Jing-Jing Lee (2019, Singapore)
Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo (2019, England)
The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo (2019, Malaysia)
Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart (2020, Scotland)
A Passage North - Anuk Arudpragasam (2021, Sri Lanka)
The Promise - Damon Galgut (2021, South Africa)
