A list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, 10 from each decade of Elizabeth II's reign, was selected by a panel of experts and announced by the BBC and The Reading Agency on 18 April 2022.
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The Promise
Damon Galgut
A Passage North
Anuk Arudpragasam
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
The Night Tiger
Yangsze Choo
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
How We Disappeared
Jing-Jing Lee
The Bone Readers
Jacob Ross
Behold the Dreamers
Imbolo Mbue
The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton
Our Lady of the Nile
Scholastique Mukasonga
Chinaman
Shehan Karunatilaka
The Memory of Love
Aminatta Forna
The Book of Night Women
Marlon James
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
Hilary Mantel
The Boat
Nam Le
A Golden Age
Tahmima Anam
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
The Secret River
Kate Grenville
Small Island
Andrea Levy
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee
The Blue Bedspread
Raj Kamal Jha
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Salt
Earl Lovelace
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
Paradise
Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
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