Novelists rub shoulders with presidents, chefs, comedians and thriller megastars on longlist to define the title with the biggest impact on the book world
It could be almost the setup for a joke, but a former president, a Booker winner and an erotic fiction superstar have walked on to the British Book awards’ longlist, and one of them could be crowned the best writer of the past three decades.
Barack Obama, Hilary Mantel and EL James are three of the bestselling writers on an eclectic list drawn up to celebrate the awards’ 30th anniversary.
A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle (Penguin) | 1990
Delia Smith’s Christmas (BBC Books) | 1991
Wild Swans, Jung Chang (William Collins) | 1992
The Art Book (Phaidon) | 1995
Longitude, Dava Sobel (Fourth Estate) | 1997
Northern Lights, Philip Pullman (Scholastic) | 1997
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling (Bloomsbury) | 1998
Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding (Picador) | 1998
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières (Vintage) | 1998
The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson and Nick Sharratt (Doubleday) | 2000
White Teeth, Zadie Smith (Penguin) | 2001
Sahara, Michael Palin (Weidenfeld Nicholson) | 2003
Brick Lane, Monica Ali (Transworld) | 2004
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Mark Haddon (David Fickling) | 2004
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Picador) | 2004
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (Transworld) | 2005
The Gruffalo’s Child, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (Macmillan) | 2005
The Sound of Laughter, Peter Kay (Century) | 2007
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (Bloomsbury) | 2008
Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown) | 2009
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (Quercus) | 2009
Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama (Canongate) | 2009
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate) | 2010
One Day, David Nicholls (Hodder) | 2010
How to Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran (Ebury) | 2011
Fifty Shades of Grey, EL James (Cornerstone) | 2012
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman (HarperFiction) | 2018
Normal People, Sally Rooney (Faber) | 2019
The Lost Words, Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane (Hamish Hamilton) | 2018
5 Ingredients, Jamie Oliver (Michael Joseph) | 2018
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