Five kings, a red comet and the Battle of the Blackwater.
Winter is coming, Ned Stark rides south and the Wall; the first of A Song of Ice and Fire.
The Ankh-Morpork Night Watch, a dragon and Sam Vimes; the first Watch book.
Death takes an apprentice; the Discworld finds its voice.
A god reduced to a tortoise and the one boy who believes; the Discworld book to start with.
Old gods versus new in a road trip across America; Gaiman's big one.
An angel and a demon try to stop the Apocalypse in Tadfield; Pratchett and Gaiman.
Earth is demolished for a bypass; 42 and a towel.
Shakespeare's son dies of plague and his wife Agnes grieves; the play is named after him.
Two magicians in the England of the Napoleonic wars, with footnotes; Clarke's thousand pages.
A man alone in an infinite house of statues and tides; Susanna Clarke's second novel.
An unnamed girl in an unnamed Belfast stalked by a paramilitary; Anna Burns' Booker.
Connell and Marianne from Sligo to Trinity College; Sally Rooney.
The first Mrs Rochester before the attic, in Jamaica; Jean Rhys answers Jane Eyre.
Four families and a mother's search for a husband for Lata in 1950s India; 1,349 pages.
Twins in Kerala and the day that ruined everything; Roy's Booker debut.
Saleem Rushdie, born at the stroke of Indian independence, and a thousand children like him; the Booker of Bookers.
Two families in Willesden across the postwar decades; Zadie Smith at 24.
Six nested stories from 1849 to a post-apocalyptic Hawaii; Mitchell's puzzle box.
Thomas Cromwell rises under Henry VIII in the present tense; Mantel's first Booker.
A lie by a 13-year-old in 1935 and Dunkirk; McEwan's best.
An artificial friend watches over a sick girl; Ishiguro after the Nobel.
Kathy, Ruth and Tommy at Hailsham and what they were made for.
A butler drives to Cornwall and considers what he gave up for a lord; Ishiguro's Booker.
Nine strangers and the trees that change their lives; Powers' Pulitzer.
Willie Lincoln's ghost and a graveyard chorus on one night in 1862; Saunders' Booker.
Two friends build video games over thirty years; the novel about work and love.
David Copperfield retold in opioid Appalachia; Kingsolver's Pulitzer.
A girl raised alone in the North Carolina marsh and a murder trial; the bestseller of the 2010s.
Amy Dunne vanishes and her diary tells one story; the twist halfway changed thrillers.
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