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A countdown of the greatest literature ever published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?

A north London cafe is under siege in a state-of-the-nation satire that brings together the haves and have-nots ...

An aweinspiring investigation of the untamed places and inhospitable environments in which life - besides humans - finds a way ...

In a rare public appearance, Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams warned of 'networks of powerful elites' using wealth and influence to silence dissenting voices ...

Poet, poetry editor and writer of the Guardian's long-running Poem of the Week column ...

The Booker winner's epic tale of gay love and loneliness in the Hebrides charts an uneasy homecoming against a backdrop of repressionThere's a common greeting in the Outer Hebrides: the lineage-establishing "Who do you belong to?" By the time this ...

The ThouTuber's tale ...

A staggering 44% of human languages are endangered - with culture, tradition and whole ways of understanding the world at stake ...

His first story collection, Reward System, was a cult hit. Now comes a novel that's a bleakly funny appraisal of millennial relationships, technology and ennui. He talks about love, precarity and being called the 'voice of a generation'

An erudite account of the foundation of the state and its subsequent moral and political decline ...