100 Novels Everyone Should Read
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Apr 2023
2:47am, 15 Apr 2023
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DazTheSlug
ok so since my last update in June 2019 I have read another 21: 3 re-reads: Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee - 4 Stars (out of 5) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - 2 The Code of the Woosters - PG Wodehouse - 3 18 new: Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey - 5 Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell - 3 Clarissa - Samuel Richardson - 3 (first book only - not in hurry to read all rest!) Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre - 2 Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne - 5 The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James - 2 A Bend in the River - VS Naipaul - 4 The Dream of the Red Chamber (aka The Story Of The Stone) - Cao Xueqin - 4 (first book only (Golden Days) so far, but will continue...) London Fields - Martin Amis - 4 Go Tell It On the Mountain - James Baldwin - 4 The Cairo Trilogy - Naguib Mahfouz - 3 (first book only (Palace Walk) - not in hurry to read all rest!) Germinal - Emile Zola - 4 A Passage to India - EM Forster - 3 Suite Francaise - Irène Némirovsky - 4 My Name Is Red - Orhan Pamuk - 4 On the Road - Jack Kerouac - 4 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie - 4 Ulysses - James Joyce - DNF making 90 currently reading Les Miserables... |
Apr 2023
7:05am, 15 Apr 2023
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Cerrertonia
Tristram Shandy is quite unique - Don Quixote meets a mid 18th century Viz meets James Joyce.
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Apr 2023
8:05am, 15 Apr 2023
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LindsD
I'm impressed Daz. Also loved Oscar and Lucinda
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Apr 2023
5:14pm, 15 Apr 2023
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westmoors
Currently reading The Name Of The Rose. Must go and update the list as I've read quite a few in the last couple of years.
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