{"id":176872,"date":"2025-09-29T04:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T04:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/176872\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T04:19:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T04:19:23","slug":"jennifer-byrne-on-her-best-books-of-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/176872\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Byrne on her best books of the 21st century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC Radio National is counting down the Top 100 Books of the 21st Century and you can help shape the list by casting your vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Journalist and book lover Jennifer Byrne has made the difficult choice and some of her favourite books include:<\/p>\n<p>Question 7, by Richard Flanagan<\/p>\n<p>The Road, by Cormac McCarthy<\/p>\n<p>Night Boat to Tangier, by Kevin Barry<\/p>\n<p>Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain, by Martha Sherrill<\/p>\n<p>Born on a Blue Day, by Daniel Tammet<\/p>\n<p>The Planets, by Dave Sobel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABC Radio National is counting down the Top 100 Books of the 21st Century and you can help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[90054,5834,12041,353,49,48,75,5844,1784,90055],"class_list":["post-176872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-21st-century","tag-authors","tag-book","tag-books","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-literature","tag-reading","tag-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}