25 Contemporary British Novels You Should Read Right Now

25 Contemporary British Novels You Should Read Right Now
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For all the praise given to the Austens’ and Dickens’ of Britain’s past, a relatively small amount of attention has been paid to England’s postwar canon. Far from doting upon the same social issues, these novels often express the difficulties of adjusting to modernity after colonial rule, to adapting to suburban life, to rejecting and accepting new subversive movements. This list barely scratches the surface, but I hope these selections lead you to discover the manifold trends that have populated the hearts and minds of the United Kingdom. Let us know what you think.

Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim (1954)
Iris Murdoch – Under the Net (1954)
John Fowles – The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969)
J.G. Ballard – Crash (1973)
Alasdair Gray – Lanark: A Life in 4 Books (1981)
William Golding – Rites of Passage (1981)
Graham Swift – Waterland (1982)
Martin Amis – Money (1984)
Iain Banks – The Wasp Factory (1984)
Julian Barnes – Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)
Angela Carter – Nights at the Circus (1984)
Jeanette Winterson – Oranges are not the Only Fruit (1985)
Jan Morris – Last Letters from Hav (1985)
Alan Hollinghurst – The Swimming-Pool Library (1988)
Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day (1989)
Hanif Kureishi – The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)
AS Byatt – Possession (1991)
Irvine Welsh – Trainspotting (1993)
Louis de Bernières - Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (1994)
Zadie Smith – White Teeth (2000)
Ian McEwan – Atonement (2001)
Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog of The Night Time (2003)
David Mitchell – Cloud Atlas (2005)
James Lever – Me, Cheeta (2009) Credit-Firestorm
Hilary Mantel – Wolf Hall/Bring up the Bodies (2008/2012)