Sydney Writers' Festival: Top 100 Books launched with Alan Hollinghurst, Catherine Chidgey, Mariana Enriquez, Afra Atiq

The Bookshelf

Live from Sydney Writers' Festival, and with an introduction by Emirate poet Afra Atiq, we bring together guests Catherine Chidgey, Mariana Enriquez and Alan Hollinghurst to discuss the most influential works in both fiction and non-fiction. From gripping novels that have captured our imaginations to thought-provoking non-fiction that has reshaped our understanding of the world, this event will celebrate the literary achievements that have defined the past quarter-century.

BOOKS MENTIONED

ALAN HOLLINGHURSTAlice Munro, Runaway David Szalay, All That Man Is Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang Bryan Washington, Lot Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These; Foster

MARIANA ENRIQUEZCormac McCarthy, The RoadDennis Cooper, The SlutsJorge Luis Borges, worksHoracio Castellanos Moya, Senselessness

CATHERINE CHIDGEYJoan Didion, The Year of Magical ThinkingJohn D'Agata and Jim Fingal, The Lifespan of a Fact Melissa Lucashenko, Edenglassie Anna Smaill, The Chime

OTHERSPaul Lynch, Prophet SongKate Grenville, The Secret RiverSarah Winman, Still LifeMarkus Zusak, The Book ThiefMelissa Lucashenko, Too Much LipDonna Tartt, The GoldfinchAnn Patchett, Bel CantoHilary Mantel, Wolf HallPip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost WordsTrent Dalton, Lola in the MirrorRobbie Arnott, LimberlostAmor Towles, A Gentleman in MoscowGeraldine Brooks, Year of WonderMin Jin Lee, PachinkoVirginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

CREDITS

• Presenter: Kate Evans, Claire Nichols
• Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer: Emrys Cronin, Hamish Camilleri, Harvey O'Sullivan
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown