{"id":91018,"date":"2025-09-28T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/91018\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:00:20","slug":"jennifer-byrne-on-her-best-books-of-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/91018\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Byrne on her best books of the 21st century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC Radio National is counting down the Top 100 Books of the 21st Century and you can help shape the list by casting your vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Journalist and book lover Jennifer Byrne has made the difficult choice and some of her favourite books include:<\/p>\n<p>Question 7, by Richard Flanagan<\/p>\n<p>The Road, by Cormac McCarthy<\/p>\n<p>Night Boat to Tangier, by Kevin Barry<\/p>\n<p>Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain, by Martha Sherrill<\/p>\n<p>Born on a Blue Day, by Daniel Tammet<\/p>\n<p>The Planets, by Dave Sobel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABC Radio National is counting down the Top 100 Books of the 21st Century and you can help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[59220,20129,2584,359,18,117,19,17,2602,2459,57852],"class_list":{"0":"post-91018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-21st-century","9":"tag-authors","10":"tag-book","11":"tag-books","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-literature","17":"tag-reading","18":"tag-writers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}