Jews Don’t Count: A Times Book of the Year 2021

* Those who have followed my stand-up and TV work will be aware that I’m not given to hiding anything. I tend to be absurdly, wearily, open about everything about my life. I have monetised being myself as a career.

Joe Abercrombie: The Blade Itself; Last Argument Of Kings; Half the World; Half a War
Adam Allix: Mayo Clinic Guide to Your Baby's First Year
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Northanger Abbey
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
Shannon Chakraborty: The City of Brass
Roald Dahl: The Witches; The BFG; Matilda; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charles Dickens: The Pickwick Papers; Martin Chuzzlewit; Little Dorrit; Hard Times; Great Expectations; David Copperfield; A Tale of Two Cities; A Christmas Carol
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The House of the Dead
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World
Alexandre Dumas: The Man in the Iron Mask; The Count Of Monte Cristo
Hans Fallada: Alone in Berlin
Morgan Greene: Angel Maker
Vasily Grossman: Life And Fate
Mick Heron: Slow Horses
Colleen Hoover: It Ends with Us
Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Les Miserables
Robert Jordan: The Eye Of The World
Stephen King: The Green Mile
Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird
Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera
Scott Lynch: The Lies of Locke Lamora; Red Seas Under Red Skies
Yann Martel: Life Of Pi
George R.R. Martin: A Game of Thrones
Peter May: The Lewis Man; The Blackhouse
Cormac McCarthy: The Road
Haruki MURAKAMI: After The Quake
George Orwell: Animal Farm
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Boris Starling: The Law of the Heart
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
Edgar Wallace: The Four Just Men
T. H. White: The Once and Future King
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief