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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2004, and recently featured in the new series of the BBC book show Between the Covers, David Mitchell’s genre-defying ‘Russian doll’ epic remains one of the most original, unusual and polarising works in the Booker Library. Here’s our beginner’s guide  

‘The internet - in the form of social media, at least - is much more like fiction than it is anything else.’ 

Read a discussion between Mohsin Hamid and his editor, Simon Prosser, about the creative process involved in writing Exit West.

With so many titles in the Booker Library imagining terrifying scenarios for humanity, it is tempting to wonder which of those fictional nightmares may be rediscovered as grim truth by future readers – and shocking to observe the extent to which some have already become reality