{"id":510972,"date":"2025-10-19T03:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/510972\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T03:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:29:14","slug":"the-top-100-books-of-the-21st-century-countdown-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/510972\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top 100 Books of the 21st century countdown continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

1m agoSun 19 Oct 2025 at 3:27am<\/p>\n

Craig Silvey: ‘It’s extraordinary’\"Anna<\/p>\n

Craig Silvey\u2019s 2020 novel Honeybee is kicking off the top 25 of the countdown.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a coming-of-age story about transgender 14-year-old Sam Watson, and how they navigate a world of petty theft, extortion plots, botched bank robberies, daring dog rescues and one spectacular drag show.<\/p>\n

Silvey is joining us now.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh my goodness, it’s extraordinary. It means the world to me,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m so proud of this book and I’m very, very grateful that readers have embraced it with such open hearts. It’s extraordinary. I’m very appreciative.\u201d<\/p>\n

4m agoSun 19 Oct 2025 at 3:24am<\/p>\n

#25: Honeybee by Craig Silvey (2020)\"Nicola\"\"(Allen & Unwin)<\/p>\n

5m agoSun 19 Oct 2025 at 3:23am<\/p>\n

Thanks for joining us!\"Anna<\/p>\n

I’m Anna, and I’m thrilled to be hanging out with you this afternoon as we count down to Australia’s top-voted book of the 21st century.<\/p>\n

All you need to know about me can probably be gleaned from my own voting card. I love books from all over the world \u2014 especially Ireland. Will any of these make it into the top 25, I wonder?<\/p>\n

And don’t forget, you can tune in live to the Top 100 countdown on Radio National on your radio or via the ABC listen app.<\/p>\n

10m agoSun 19 Oct 2025 at 3:18am<\/p>\n

Welcome to our live coverage of ABC Radio National’s Top 100 Books of the 21st century\"Nicola<\/p>\n

Hello to all the bibliophiles out there!<\/p>\n

I’m Nicola Heath<\/b> and together with Anna Levy<\/b> from Radio National, we’ll be taking you through the final 25 of the inaugural Top 100 Books countdown.<\/p>\n

The action kicked off yesterday and it’s been a literary extravaganza.<\/p>\n

We’d love to know what books you voted for and which book you think will take out the top spot. Will it be a Tim Winton<\/b> classic? Or an international prizewinner like Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall<\/b>? (Yes, both in my top 10!)<\/p>\n

Let us know in the comments and don’t forget to use the Reactions on each post to get involved!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1m agoSun 19 Oct 2025 at 3:27am Craig Silvey: ‘It’s extraordinary’ Craig Silvey\u2019s 2020 novel Honeybee is kicking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,5193,15932,15931,167100,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-510972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-live-blog","11":"tag-the-book-show","12":"tag-the-bookshelf","13":"tag-top-100-books","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115398716293269302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}