Joyce's Ulysses, Woolf's Jacob's Room, Eliot's The Waste Land, Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned, Williams' The Velveteen Rabbit... 1922 has been called the annus mirabilis (“miracle year”) of literary modernism and was a turning point in English literature that spawned a flood of influential works still in heavy circulation today.
To mark this centenary, we invited Festivalgoers to take a fresh look at the past 100 years of literature, drawing up a list of the 100 most influential books - all genres, fiction or non-fiction, old or new, were welcome.
Explore the full selection over on our Bookshop.org page now.