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he British Book Awards, a.k.a. the Nibbies, were founded in 1990. A one-off award at this


year’s ceremony, this 30from30 category celebrates the biggest winners at the awards over the past three decades. Ten titles on the shortlist were whittled down from 30 of the best and most iconic books to have picked up a Nibbie—from Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence (1990) to Normal People by Sally Rooney (2019)—and the 11th comes as a “wildcard” entry: a book that did not win a Nibbie in the year of its success, but perhaps ought to have.


WITH THANKS


THE BOOKSELLER COMPILED THE LIST WITH HELP FROM BOOK TRADE HISTORIAN MARIA VASSILOPOULOS


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publisher Michael Joseph. The title won the Non-Fiction: Lifestyle Nibbie in 2018.


THE DA VINCI CODE There is one book every few years that breaks out beyond the core book-buying audience, resulting in a sales trajectory like no other—to the delight of booksellers all over. For most of the mid-Noughties, Dan Brown’s book crested that wave for Transworld. The twisty thriller became a Tom Hanks film, and is the second- biggest seller on this list. Its Nibbie win came in 2005.


THE GRUFFALO’S CHILD The Gruffalo did not win a Nibbie, but its follow-up did, and deservedly so: with life sales through Nielsen of more than two million copies, it continues to sell strongly for Macmillan, with annual sales in 2019 of 80,000 copies. It made brands of author Julia Donaldson, illustrator Axel Scheffler, and, of course, the Gruffalo. Its original Nibbies triumph came in 2005.


JUDGES' VERDICT


TEN TITLES ON THE SHORTLIST


WERE WHITTLED DOWN FROM 30 ICONIC BOOKS


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book is not. Along with White Teeth and His Dark Materials, Fielding’s title was included in a recent BBC list of 100 novels that shaped the world.


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