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Celebrating reading and the 100 novels that have shaped our world

Novels That Shaped Our World: 10 on Identity

From Toni Morrison's Beloved to Sylvia's Plath's The Bell Jar, 10 novels that explore how we define ourselves and others

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The Novels That Shaped Our World

Jo Whiley's in the chair as the panel reveal the reasons behind their Novels choices

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The Novels Survey: Identity

Tell us what you think about the list and get personalised recommendations

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Live and Let Die

Just as Britain’s status as a world power was fading, one hero kept it going. James Bond

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Kim

Rudyard Kipling believed in the British empire. His finest novel, Kim, also questions it.

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The Handmaid's Tale

How Margaret Atwood's novel uniquely placed women at the centre of events

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Greg Davies: Looking for Kes

Greg Davies travels to Barnsley to meet those intimately tied to Barry Hines's classic novel A Kestrel for a Knave

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Novels That Shaped Our World

A look at how the novel has followed the rise, decline and fall of the British Empire.

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The Worlds of Ursula K Le Guin

The author who forced the mainstream to embrace fantasy in literature

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Amazing literary listens on BBC Sounds

The Verb

Tim Minchin, Kit De Waal, Elif Shafak and Geoff Dyer on how the language of novels inspires writers

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Was Gertrude Stein Any Good?

Gertrude Stein has been called a genius and an idiot. So which was she?

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Open Book

Kathy O'Shaughnessy talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new novel on the life of George Eliot