A large number of people each year make their reading decisions on the basis of prizes like the Booker and Orange Guide to Fiction. This new title in the successful Must-Read series provides an overview of prize-winning fiction over the decades. With 100 titles fully featured and over 500 read-on recommendations, this unique survey of literature incorporates some of the finest contemporary fiction ever produced including Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (Booker), Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up (John Llewellyn Rhys), Andrea Levy's Small Island (Orange), Louis de Bernieres's Captain Corelli'

A large number of people each year make their reading decisions on the basis of prizes like the Booker and Orange Guide to Fiction. This new title in the successfulMust-Readseries provides an overview of prize-winning fiction over the decades. With 100 titles fully featured and over 500 read-on recommendations, this unique survey of literature incorporates some of the finest contemporary fiction ever produced including Salman Rushdie'sMidnight's Children(Booker), Jonathan Coe'sWhat a Carve Up(John Llewellyn Rhys), Andrea Levy'sSmall Island(Orange), Louis de Bernieres'sCaptain Corelli's Mandolin(Commonwealth Writers' Prize), Zadie Smith'sWhite Teeth(Guardian First Book Award), Arundhati Roy'sThe God of Small Things(Booker). As well as Booker and Pullitzer prize-winners the book also finds room for those that have triumphed in less familiar prizes, such as the Betty Trask and the John Lewellyn Rhys. It looks at prize winners in certain genres such as crime and science fiction, as well as prize winners from other countries: the French Prix de Goncourt and the Australian Miles Franklin award. Because of the sheer range of prizes across countries and genres - this is a diverse and rich list that no book worm would want to be without.

A large number of people every year make their reading decisions onthe basis of shortlists for major prizes like the Booker and OrangePrize for Fiction. This new title in the successful Must-Read Seriesprovides an overview of fiction which has won prizes over the decades.