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Best books of 2004

November 2009

  • David Mitchell

    Books blog
    Books of the decade: Your best books of 2004

    Michelle Pauli: In a strong year for fiction, Cloud Atlas's dazzling Russian doll of a novel did not win over the Booker jury, but takes my vote. What were your favourites?

January 2005

  • A grand view

  • By popular demand

30 December 2004

  • Readers' Books of the Year

  • Readers' Books of the Year

  • Readers' Books of the Year

  • Readers' Books of the Year

26 December 2004

  • Heroes and villains

    Bouquets for Colm Tóibín, Alan Hollinghurst and Michael Palin - and thoroughly well-deserved brickbats for Tom Wolfe. Robert McCrum looks back at 2004.

19 December 2004

  • Just time to...

    ...snap up one of this year's favourites for bird-watchers, time-wasters and TV retuners.

  • A rotting corpse is a perfect gift

    Cadavers, human diamonds and ants - all life and death is here as Robin McKie rounds up the best science books of 2004.

  • Tunnel visionary

    Philippa Pearce's first book in 20 years stars a 300-year-old mole. Kate Kellaway rounds up the best books for children.

18 December 2004

  • Hothouse flowers

    Matthew Collings looks for a masterpiece in the recent crop of art books.

15 December 2004

  • Building a children's library
    A book for Christmas

    From Gulliver's Travels to Gangsta Rap, Dina Rabinovitch selects her 10 favourite children's books of the year.

12 December 2004

  • 68,647 ways to make you laugh

    Roger Sabin rounds up the best cartoons for Christmas.

5 December 2004

  • Alan Hollinghurst

    No spats, just plenty of quality

    Alan Hollinghurst's Booker victory dominated a year of quiet strength for literary fiction, says Stephanie Merritt

4 December 2004

  • Doing what comes naturalistically

    Stephen Moss on the best wildlife books of 2004.

  • More season's readings

    From Andrea Levy to William Trevor

    • Readers' books of 2004

    • The mysterious game

    • Off with your toes

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