Where to start with Zadie Smith: a guide to her best books
Hailed as the voice of a generation and a modern-day Charles Dickens, Zadie Smith is an astute chronicler of our times. But which of her works of fiction should you read first?
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith is a multi-award-winning author, who made a huge impact with her first novel, White Teeth
White Teeth won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. It was followed by The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia, and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2005 and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002.
All nominated books
Zadie Smith delivers an unforgettable tale about who we are and what we really want to be, in this wry and thoughtful rite-of-passage novel
Male lust and female friendship draw two families together - despite the gulf that exists between them - in Zadie Smith’s engaging satire
Zadie Smith’s dazzlingly energetic and deeply human story about friendship, music and true identity, how they shape us and how we can survive them
