The 30 best books of last three decades have been revealed - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Celebrity The 30 best books of last three decades have been revealed By You Magazine - February 18, 2020 There’s no better feeling than snuggling up and getting lost into a good book. It is the ultimate escapism, especially if it’s a gripping piece of fiction that you can’t put down. Amazon As you may know, the British Book Awards are dedicated to celebrating those incredible gems that entertain us time and time again and this year, the prestigious ceremony is celebrating its 30th anniversary. To mark the milestone, the awards (also known as The Nibbies) have introduced a one-off category to award the best book of the past three decades. Amazon Tough decision, we know. There have been hundreds of bestsellers in the last thirty years, so before the all important decision is made and the winner is crowned, the British Book Awards have created a long list of 30 best books from the past 30 years. And we don’t know about you, but we’ve certainly spotted some of our favourites in the line-up. Commenting on the long list, Philip Jones, editor of The Bookseller and chair of the judges at the British Book Awards, said: ‘For 30 years the British Book Awards has celebrated and rewarded everything that is good about British publishing through its big, successful and prize-winning books. Amazon ‘This is an opportunity to relive a few memories of these past three decades, to cherish the books, authors, illustrators, agents, and publishers that brought them to market and the booksellers and librarians that sought out readers for them.’ So, how many have you read already? The 30 best books of last three decades in no particular order A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle (Penguin), 1990 Delia Smith’s Christmas (BBC Books), 1991 Wild Swans, Jung Chang (William Collins), 1992 The Art Book (Phaidon), 1995 Longitude, Dava Sobel (Fourth Estate), 1997 Northern Lights, Philip Pullman (Scholastic), 1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, J K Rowling (Bloomsbury), 1998 Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding (Picador), 1998 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres (Vintage), 1998 The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson and Nick Sharratt (Doubleday), 2000 White Teeth, Zadie Smith (Penguin), 2001 Sahara, Michael Palin (Weidenfeld Nicholson), 2003 Brick Lane, Monica Ali (Transworld), 2004 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Mark Haddon (David Fickling), 2004 The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Picador), 2004 The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (Transworld), 2005 The Gruffalo’s Child, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (Macmillan), 2005 The Sound of Laughter, Peter Kay (Century), 2007 A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (Bloomsbury), 2008 Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown), 2009 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (Quercus), 2009 Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama (Canongate), 2009 Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate), 2010 One Day, David Nicholls (Hodder), 2010 How to Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran (Ebury), 2011 Fifty Shades of Grey, EL James (Cornerstone), 2012 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman (HarperFiction), 2018 The Lost Words, Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane (Hamish Hamilton), 2018 5 Ingredients by Jamie Oliver (Michael Joseph), 2018 Normal People, Sally Rooney (Faber), 2019 RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR 50 of the best celebrity Halloween costumes of all time Shirley Ballas ‘ Strictly gave me back my hope’ Davina McCall discusses how men can help women going through the menopause Popular in Celebrity TV chef Gino D Acampo on Sardinia Sophia Loren and scary salads May 25, 2017 The Evergreen Goddess Exercise guru Diana Moran on looking fit and July 10, 2017 More more Julianne Moore November 13, 2017 Author Jill Mansell on designer notebooks commissioning art and the family January 16, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES Kelly Hoppen on vodka vintage finds and being a April 4, 2018 ‘ I have no regrets’ Millie Mackintosh on divorce debt and reuniting May 20, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES TV presenter and tennis player Annabel Croft shares her July 1, 2018 Stella Parton ‘ Dolly and I have always been close’ August 12, 2018 Anna Friel on getting jeered in the street shared parenting with September 23, 2018 Queen of primetime Charlotte Riley on juggling rising stardom with pregnancy October 21, 2018 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. 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