To mark 30 years of The British Book Awards (aka The Nibbies), the awards have announced they will give a one-off award for the 'best' book of the past three decades.
The award will be announced on 18 May, but before that, the awards have created a longlist of 30 books from the past 30 years. The list is made up of past winners at the British Book Awards, founded in 1990.
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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. 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?
1 of 30A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle (Penguin)
2 of 30Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding (Picador)
3 of 30Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
4 of 30Brick Lane, Monica Ali (Transworld)
5 of 30A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (Bloomsbury)
6 of 305 Ingredients, Jamie Oliver (Michael Joseph)
7 of 30Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama (Canongate)
8 of 30Delia Smith’s Christmas (BBC Books)
9 of 30Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman (HarperFiction)
10 of 30Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres (Vintage)
11 of 30Fifty Shades of Grey, EL James (Cornerstone)
12 of 30Longitude, Dava Sobel (Fourth Estate)
13 of 30Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, J K Rowling (Bloomsbury)
14 of 30How to Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran (Ebury)
15 of 30Northern Lights, Philip Pullman (Scholastic)
16 of 30Normal People, Sally Rooney (Faber)
17 of 30One Day, David Nicholls (Hodder)
18 of 30The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Mark Haddon (David Fickling)
19 of 30The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (Quercus)
20 of 30The Lost Words, Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane (Hamish Hamilton)
21 of 30The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Picador)
22 of 30Sahara, Michael Palin (Weidenfeld Nicholson)
23 of 30The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (Transworld)
24 of 30The Art Book (Phaidon)
25 of 30The Sound of Laughter, Peter Kay (Century)
26 of 30The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson and Nick Sharratt
27 of 30Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate)
28 of 30Wild Swans, Jung Chang (William Collins)
29 of 30White Teeth, Zadie Smith (Penguin)
30 of 30The Gruffalo’s Child, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
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