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Suzi Feay selects her must-read titles
James Lovegrove selects his must-read titles
Books by FT writers
From economics, politics and history to science, art, food and, of course, fiction — our annual round-up brings you top titles picked by FT writers and critics
Laura Battle and Andrew Dickson select their must-read titles
Adam LeBor selects his must-read titles
Ángel Gurría-Quintana selects his must-read titles
Barry Forshaw selects his must-read titles
A jaw-dropping account of finance’s philosopher king Ray Dalio; why two decades of adventurous TV drama may be over; Werner Herzog’s pursuit of ‘ecstatic truth’; a time-travelling novel from Anne Michaels; how ‘Frankenstein’ was brought to life; why the French overthrow their monarchy — plus Pilita Clark’s pick of new books on the environment
The Canadian novelist’s complex, time-travelling new novel explores trauma, loss and the lasting impact of love
Justin Torres presents a rich plot that centres around a friendship with a dying man
Anne Eekhout’s novel reimagines how Mary Shelley’s most famous novel was brought to life, with intriguing results
The Rwandan writer playfully explores storytelling and colonialism
As he did with Schindler’s Ark, the Booker-winning author again weaves a sweeping tale around historical fact
Set onboard the International Space Station, Samantha Harvey’s novel makes a clarion call for our planet
Bryan Washington follows 2020’s ‘Memorial’ with a novel about the vulnerabilities of life and connections that make us happy
From political wrongdoing in rotten boroughs to intrigue in Hollywood — plus the return of Mitch McDeere and Cormoran Strike
No tale of ghosts and scares is complete without the spooky presence of a feared familiar
This autumnal work about a professor haunted by glimpses of his late wife is a riddling but deeply felt meditation on grief
A compelling tale about tech tycoons leading the world to a cataclysmic end
The Polish modernist’s exuberant, high-octane prose is deftly captured by Antonia Lloyd-Jones’s translation
A Vietnamese Australian struggles with identity, an African is fleeced by the unscrupulous and more
A mystery novel about a house that turns into a ghost, of sorts, from the author of bestseller Six Four
This intense, affecting story of slavery and escape in the antebellum South is a confidently contrary take on Dante
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