William Golding’s Lord of the Flies has been named on the BBC’s list of the 100 novels that shaped our world. The panel of judges – Mariella Frostrup, Kit de Waal, Stig Abell, Symia Aslam, Juno Dawson and Alexander McCall Smith – chose English-language books, published over the last 300 years, to ‘reflect the ways books help shape and influence our thinking’. Lord of the Flies was selected in the ‘Politics, Power & Protest’ category alongside novels by authors including Kamila Shamsie, Harper Lee and Aldous Huxley.
