Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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British, Irish and Commonwealth fiction

Modern literary fiction

Novels and stories by writers from Britain, Ireland, Canada and Australia, including Ishiguro, Rooney, Barnes, Mitchell and Munro.

Books 34Recommenders 29

Start here

  1. The MagusJohn Fowles, 1965
  2. Fifth BusinessRobertson Davies, 1970
  3. The Transit of VenusShirley Hazzard, 1980
  4. The Remains of the DayKazuo Ishiguro, 1989
  5. The Salmon of DoubtDouglas Adams, 1995
The MagusThe Magus
T4 The Magus
John Fowles · 1965
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Matt Mullenweg

Fifth BusinessFifth Business
T4 Fifth Business
Robertson Davies · 1970
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Susan J. Fowler

The Transit of VenusThe Transit of Venus
T4 The Transit of Venus
Shirley Hazzard · 1980
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Sam Altman

The Remains of the DayThe Remains of the Day
T4 The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Abi Tyas Tunggal and 2 others

The Salmon of DoubtThe Salmon of Doubt
T4 The Salmon of Doubt
Douglas Adams · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, MHateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
T4 Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Alice Munro · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: David Cancel, Ron Conway, Sam Altman

When We Were OrphansWhen We Were Orphans
T4 When We Were Orphans
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Diana Kimball

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
T4 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Ev Williams

Cloud AtlasCloud Atlas
T4 Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Nat Eliason, Sahil Lavingia

ShantaramShantaram
T4 Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Richard Branson, Kevin Kelly and 1 other

Never Let Me GoNever Let Me Go
T4 Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Guy Proops

DisobedienceDisobedience
T4 Disobedience
Naomi Alderman · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake

The Sense of an EndingThe Sense of an Ending
T4 The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Guy Proops, Mario Gabriele

The Casual VacancyThe Casual Vacancy
T4 The Casual Vacancy
J. K. Rowling, Tom Hollander · 2012
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Recommended by: Patrick Collison

The Rosie ProjectThe Rosie Project
T4 The Rosie Project
Graeme Simsion · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Gaby Goldberg

The Rosie EffectThe Rosie Effect
T4 The Rosie Effect
Graeme Simsion · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai

The Gap of TimeThe Gap of Time
T4 The Gap of Time
Jeanette Winterson · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake

NutshellNutshell
T4 Nutshell
Ian McEwan · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

An unborn child overhears his mother and his uncle plot against his father.

Recommended by: Antonio García Martínez

The Course of LoveThe Course of Love
T4 The Course of Love
Alain de Botton · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

Conversations with FriendsConversations with Friends
T4 Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: George Hatzis

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineEleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
T4 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Reese Witherspoon, Zoë Foster Blake

Boy Swallows UniverseBoy Swallows Universe
T4 Boy Swallows Universe
Trent Dalton · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake

Normal PeopleNormal People
T4 Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel of two Irish teenagers who circle each other from school to Trinity College.

Recommended by: Gaby Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey and 2 others

Paris EchoParis Echo
T4 Paris Echo
Sebastian Faulks · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

An American scholar and a Moroccan runaway in a Paris haunted by Vichy and Algeria.

Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake

The Water CureThe Water Cure
T4 The Water Cure
Sophie Mackintosh · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake

FrankisssteinFrankissstein
T4 Frankissstein
Jeannette Winterson · 2019
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Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake

Girl, Woman, OtherGirl, Woman, Other
T4 Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo · 2019
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Recommended by: Jackie Vullinghs

Klara and the SunKlara and the Sun
T4 Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2019
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Recommended by: Bill Gates

The YieldThe Yield
T4 The Yield
Tara June Winch · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake

HoneybeeHoneybee
T4 Honeybee
Craig Silvey · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake

The Midnight LibraryThe Midnight Library
T4 The Midnight Library
Matt Haig · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

SuccessSuccess
T4 Success
Martin Amis
Goodreads

Recommended by: Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Tales of the Unexpected
T4 Tales of the Unexpected
Roald Dahl
Goodreads

Recommended by: Richard Branson

The ArrivalThe Arrival
T4 The Arrival
Goodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

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