The Book Show Top 100 Books with Colum McCann, Kate Grenville and Kaliane Bradley
Discover the favourite books from the 21st century of Colum McCann, Kate Grenville and Kaliane Bradley who share their best reads for ABC Radio National's Top 100 Books.
The Book Show producer Sarah L'Estrange spoke to three acclaimed authors at Melbourne Writers Festival in the lead up to ABC Radio National's Top 100 Books countdown. Go here to vote for your favourite book of the last 25 years.
Guests:
Colum McCann is an Irish author of eight novels including Let the Great World Spin and Apeirogon and his latest is Twist which is a tale about disconnection in this hyper connected world.
Kate Grenville is the author of over 15 books of fiction and non-fiction, including her Orange Prize winning book The Idea of Perfection, The Secret River and her latest book, Unsettled, explores the personal story behind The Secret River.
Kaliane Bradley is a British-Cambodian writer and editor whose bestselling debut novel The Ministry of Time is a time travel novel about immigration, history and romance.
Panel's top reads of the 21st century:
Kate Grenville
- Mateship With Birds by Carrie Tiffany
- Anything Can Happen, by Susan Hampton
- Olive Cotton, a Life in Photography by Helen Ennis
- The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage
- Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
Kaliane Bradley
- Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
- Landbridge by Y-Dang Troeung
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- Grief Is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter
Colum McCann
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
- A Mercy by Toni Morrison
- Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Aidiche
- (and Gilead by Marilynne Robinson)