David Mitchell recommends
The Broken Places (2023)Russell Franklin"Sunlit and dark, painful and joyous, The Broken Places follows Ernest Hemingway's child on a lifelong journey. Russell Franklin has crafted a myth-busting novel of rare skill and integrity. Its echoes persist and evolve long after the final pages." The Mountain in the Sea (2022)Ray Nayler"I loved this novel's brain and heart, its hidden traps, sheer propulsion, ingenious world-building and the purity of its commitment to luminous ideas." I Was the President's Mistress!! (2022)Miguel Syjuco"A super-typhoon of a novel. A Babel of rogues, survivors and shape-shifters. A polemic against corruption and greed. A sassy, swerving mini-series, touched by grace and beauty. A Filipino Bonfire of the Vanities for our beleaguered times. An uncompromising work of art." The Book of Form and Emptiness (2021)Ruth Ozeki"This compassionate novel of life, love and loss glows in the dark. Its strange, beautiful pages turn themselves. If you’ve lost your way with fiction over the last year or two, let The Book of Form and Emptiness light your way home." The Island of Missing Trees (2021)Elif Shafak"A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES is balm for our bruised times." Piranesi (2020)Susanna Clarke"What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being, what a tick-tock-tick-tock of reveals, what a pure protagonist, what a morally squalid supporting cast, what beauty, tension and restraint, and what a pitch-perfect ending. Piranesi is an exquisite puzzle-box far, far bigger on the inside than it is on the outside." Census (2018)Jesse Ball"Census is a vital testament to selfless love; a psalm to commonplace miracles; and a mysterious evolving metaphor. So kind, it aches." All Involved (2015)(All Involved)Ryan Gattis"A symphonic, pitch-perfect, superlative novel. It is visceral and adrenalin-fuelled, yet tender and even darkly comic. It is audacious, unflinching and subversive. It doesn't judge. It swallowed me whole." Stay Up With Me (2013)Tom Barbash"Tom Barbash's wise and bittersweet stories map the gulfs between us, and the unexpected connections." The Buried Giant (2012)Kazuo Ishiguro"If forced at knife-point to choose my favourite Ishiguro novel, I’d opt for The Buried Giant. It uses the tropes of fantasy to set up a smoke-screen which the book then, by twists and turns, dispels. This reveal gives the book a shadow-plot, and layers of mystery . . . An ideas-enabler, a metaphor-animator." Silence (1966)Shūsaku Endō"One of the finest historical novels written by anyone, anywhere . . . Flawless." More recommendations Anthologies containing stories by David Mitchell
Awards
| Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2001) : Number9dream | | James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2001) : Number9dream | | Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2004) : Cloud Atlas | | James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2004) : Cloud Atlas | | Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book nominee (2005) : Cloud Atlas | | Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (2005) : Cloud Atlas | | The Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year Best Book winner (2005) : Cloud Atlas | | Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2006) : Black Swan Green | | Costa Book Awards Best Novel nominee (2006) : Black Swan Green | | Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2010) : The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | | Walter Scott Prize Best Historical Novel nominee (2011) : The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | | Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2014) : The Bone Clocks | | World Fantasy Best Novel winner (2015) : The Bone Clocks |
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