Big Jubilee List
The Big Jubilee Read was a 2022 campaign to promote reading for pleasure and to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. 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.
- 1
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie · 1981 · 25 lists
- 2
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1985 · 23 lists
- 3
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · 1962 · 17 lists
- 4
White Teeth
Zadie Smith · 2000 · 17 lists
- 5
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989 · 14 lists
- 6
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams · 1979 · 13 lists
- 7
Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee · 1999 · 12 lists
- 8
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel · 2009 · 12 lists
- 9
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys · 1966 · 11 lists
- 10
A House for Mr Biswas
V.S. Naipaul · 1961 · 10 lists
- 11
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2006 · 9 lists
- 12
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy · 1997 · 9 lists
- 13
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John Le Carré · 1974 · 8 lists
- 14
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry · 1995 · 7 lists
- 15
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 2005 · 7 lists
- 16
Life of Pi
Yann Martel · 2001 · 6 lists
- 17
Small Island
Andrea Levy · 2004 · 6 lists
- 18
The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough · 1977 · 6 lists
- 19
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart · 2020 · 5 lists
- 20
The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch · 1952 · 5 lists
- 21
The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields · 1993 · 5 lists
- 22
Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe · 1964 · 3 lists
- 23
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo · 2019 · 3 lists
- 24
Schindler's Ark
Thomas Keneally · 1982 · 3 lists
- 25
The Bone People
Keri Hulme · 1983 · 3 lists
- 26
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje · 1992 · 3 lists
- 27
The Guide
R. K. Narayan · 1979 · 3 lists
- 28
A Grain of Wheat
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o · 1967 · 2 lists
- 29
Behold the Dreamers
Imbolo Mbue · 2016 · 2 lists
- 30
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai · 1980 · 2 lists
- 31
Omeros
Derek Walcott · 2004 · 2 lists
- 32
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay · 1970 · 2 lists
- 33
The Girls of Slender Means
Muriel Spark · 1963 · 2 lists
- 34
The Interrogation
J.M.G. Le Clézio · 1963 · 2 lists
- 35
The Lonely Londoners
Sam Selvon · 1956 · 2 lists
- 36
The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton · 2013 · 2 lists
- 37
The Promise
Damon Galgut · 1981 · 2 lists
- 38
A Golden Age
Tahmima Anam · 2007 · 1 list
- 39
A Passage North
Anuk Arudpragasam · 2021 · 1 list
- 40
Beka Lamb
Zee Edgell · 1986 · 1 list
- 41
Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew
Shehan Karunatilaka · 2011 · 1 list
- 42
Cloudstreet
Tim Winton · 1991 · 1 list
- 43
Death of a Naturalist
Seamus Heaney · 1966 · 1 list
- 44
How We Disappeared
Jing-Jing Lee · 2019 · 1 list
- 45
In the Castle of My Skin
George Lamming · 1953 · 1 list
- 46
My Bones and My Flute
Edgar Mittelholzer · 1955 · 1 list
- 47
One Moonlit Night
Caradog Prichard · 1998 · 1 list
- 48
Our Lady of the Nile
Scholastique Mukasonga · 2014 · 1 list
- 49
Paradise
Abdulrazak Gurnah · 1667 · 1 list
- 50
Salt
Earl Lovelace · 1952 · 1 list
- 51
Summer Lightning and Other Stories
Olive Senior · 1986 · 1 list
- 52
Sunlight on a Broken Column
Attia Hosain · 1961 · 1 list
- 53
The Adoption Papers
Jackie Kay · 1992 · 1 list
- 54
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Ayi Kwei Armah · 1968 · 1 list
- 55
The Blue Bedspread
Raj Kamal Jha · 2000 · 1 list
- 56
- 57
The Bone Readers
Jacob Ross · 2009 · 1 list
- 58
The Book of Night Women
Marlon James · 2009 · 1 list
- 59
The Crow Eaters
Bapsi Sidhwa · 1978 · 1 list
- 60
The Hills Were Joyful Together
Roger Mais · 1953 · 1 list
- 61
The Memory of Love
Aminatta Forna · 2010 · 1 list
- 62
The Night Tiger
Yangsze Choo · 1999 · 1 list
- 63
The Nowhere Man
Kamala Markandaya · 2016 · 1 list
- 64
The Secret River
Kate Grenville · 2005 · 1 list
- 65
The Whale Rider
Witi Ihimaera · 1987 · 1 list
- 66
To Sir, With Love
E.R. Braithwaite · 1959 · 1 list
- 67
Tsotsi
Athol Fugard · 1980 · 1 list
- 68
When Rain Clouds Gather & Maru
Bessie Head · 2010 · 1 list
- 69
Who Do You Think You Are?
Alice Munro · 1970 · 1 list