This “best of the best” five list was announced Saturday (May 26) at the Hay Festival, which is running this year in its flagship event in Wales through June 3.
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The list comprises books by three men and two women:
• 1971, In a Free State by VS Naipaul, Picador (selected by juror Robert McCrum)
• 1987, Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, Penguin (selected by juror Lemn Sissay)
• 1992, The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, Bloomsbury (selected by juror Kamila Shamsie)
• 2009, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Fourth Estate (selected by Simon Mayo)
• 2017, Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, Bloomsbury (selected by Hollie McNish)
