{"id":49008,"date":"2025-09-28T16:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/49008\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T16:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:11:14","slug":"jennifer-byrne-on-her-best-books-of-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/49008\/","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":49009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[35683,16948,740,288,93,61,60,340,1886,33976],"class_list":["post-49008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-21st-century","tag-authors","tag-book","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-literature","tag-reading","tag-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}