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Approaching sunset, Nine Maidens of Boskednan for #StandingStoneSunday
This circle, high on a ridge with panoramic views in all directions, is my favourite of all.
This visit November 2010, towards the end of a lovely autumn walk from St Just to Madron. Portrait, needs a click.
#WestPenwith #StoneCircle #Cornwall #TheModernAntiquarian #BronzeAge
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Shadowrun war super!
Dieses Handout bekam die Deckerin Sw4n heute. Es führte zu einer überschallschnelle Reise von Zürich nach Portland. Und: Eine ganz fiese Masche, hilfsbereite Touristen auszubeuten, wird drei Ganger beim nächsten Mal Bekanntschaft mit Madox' frisch erworbenen Kompositknochen machen lassen!
#ttrpg #pnpde #sr5 #Shadowrun5 #Shadowrun -
Late season #wildflowers. Pearly Everlasting. @Amber pointed out that they smell like maple syrup! Good day on the trails. Only 3 trees down, and only one required the trail chainsaw. One Madrone was large enough we need the big chainsaw to clear it. #SonomaValley #hiking
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I have a new painting on the easel resting. I am not sure I am done with it yet but this is it for today!
“Summer Evening Izabella Point” by Terrill Welch, 16 x 20 inch walnut oil on canvas.
Artist notes: The grasses are dry around the Arbutus trees and have an odd slightly pink hue in the early evening light due to wildfire smoke. Still, the beauty comes through and rests on the shoulders of possibility and if only.
#Art #OilPainting #Cityscape #Paris #MorningVibes #ContemporaryArt #LandscapePainting #TerrillWelch #FediArt #AYearForArt #Painting #Trees #ArtbutusTrees #MadronaTrees
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I have a new painting on the easel resting. I am not sure I am done with it yet but this is it for today!
“Summer Evening Izabella Point” by Terrill Welch, 16 x 20 inch walnut oil on canvas.
Artist notes: The grasses are dry around the Arbutus trees and have an odd slightly pink hue in the early evening light due to wildfire smoke. Still, the beauty comes through and rests on the shoulders of possibility and if only.
#Art #OilPainting #Cityscape #Paris #MorningVibes #ContemporaryArt #LandscapePainting #TerrillWelch #FediArt #AYearForArt #Painting #Trees #ArtbutusTrees #MadronaTrees
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I have a new painting on the easel resting. I am not sure I am done with it yet but this is it for today!
“Summer Evening Izabella Point” by Terrill Welch, 16 x 20 inch walnut oil on canvas.
Artist notes: The grasses are dry around the Arbutus trees and have an odd slightly pink hue in the early evening light due to wildfire smoke. Still, the beauty comes through and rests on the shoulders of possibility and if only.
#Art #OilPainting #Cityscape #Paris #MorningVibes #ContemporaryArt #LandscapePainting #TerrillWelch #FediArt #AYearForArt #Painting #Trees #ArtbutusTrees #MadronaTrees
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I have a new painting on the easel resting. I am not sure I am done with it yet but this is it for today!
“Summer Evening Izabella Point” by Terrill Welch, 16 x 20 inch walnut oil on canvas.
Artist notes: The grasses are dry around the Arbutus trees and have an odd slightly pink hue in the early evening light due to wildfire smoke. Still, the beauty comes through and rests on the shoulders of possibility and if only.
#Art #OilPainting #Cityscape #Paris #MorningVibes #ContemporaryArt #LandscapePainting #TerrillWelch #FediArt #AYearForArt #Painting #Trees #ArtbutusTrees #MadronaTrees
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Wrzutka! Tekst, który bardzo mi się spodobał i chcę go spopularyzować ^_^
#utopia #SolarpunkVibes #solarpunk
Tytuł:
🌸 Utopia teraz: dlaczego potrzebujemy marzyć ze śmiałością🌸Autorka:
🌷 Laurie Penny
Tłumacz:
🌷 Ludwig BodmerTekst pierwotnie ukazał się na stronie magazynu „The New Statesman” w 2015 roku.
Fragment:
Opowiadamy dzieciom wiele zwyczajowych i okrutnych kłamstw, ale chyba najbardziej znaczące jest to: życzenie wypowiedziane na głos się nie spełni. Masz urodziny? Właśnie zobaczył_ś spadającą gwiazdę? Nie możesz wyrazić swoich pragnień, bo jeśli to zrobisz, zgasną jak świeczki na torcie. Te mądrości zostały pewnie wymyślone przez rodziców, którzy chcieli uniknąć traumy związanej z niemożnością spełnienia dziecięcych pragnień. To kłamstwo niesiemy ze sobą w dorosłość, gdzie powtarzają je nam rządzący. Nie mów, jakiego świata sobie życzysz, bo w najlepszym wypadku spotka cię rozczarowanie, a w najgorszym aresztowanie.
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Dziś pilniej niż kiedykolwiek musimy tworzyć utopijne idee, właśnie dlatego, że koncepcja lepszego świata nigdy nie wydawała się bardziej odległa. Właśnie teraz władcy świata decydują, ile miast zatonie, zanim zrobimy coś, żeby zredukować emisję dwutlenku węgla. Spotykają się w Paryżu, który niedawno stał się scenerią kolejnego sezonu naszego najmniej ulubionego serialu Wojna na Bliskim Wschodzie. Świat wydaje się zmierzać w stronę kolejnego kryzysu ekonomicznego; roboty są gotowe do zautomatyzowania tych nielicznych prac, które nie znajdą się pod wodą. Jakbyśmy żyli w dystopijnej trylogii napisanej przez sadystycznego autora powieści Young Adult; mam ogromną nadzieję, że dzielni młodzi bohaterowie przybędą na ratunek szybko, nawet jeśli ma się to wiązać z niezręcznym trójkątem miłosnym.
Inspirującej lektury!
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"Jakie są zasady gry?
(English below)Nasze media to nie internetowe kółko debatowe ani platforma dla wszelkiego rodzaju idiotów do głoszenia swoich poglądów.
Być może niektórzy zastanawiają się , dlaczego usuwamy niektóre komentarze i blokujemy niektóre osoby z naszych mediów. Sprawa jest prosta. Nasze profile służą do informowania o ważnych dla nas sprawach, toczących się walkach społecznych, przedstawianiu ciekawych analiz z pozycji anarchistycznych (choć nie tylko) i przypominaniu zapomnianych historii ruchu antyfaszystowskiego i antyautorytarnego.
Zdecydowanie NIE jest to miejsce dla wszelkiego rodzaju prawicowych czy skrajnie prawicowych pajaców. Macie swoje własne strony i grupy, gdzie możecie dzielić się swoimi „mądrościami” z dupy. Ani nas one nie interesują, ani nie zamierzamy dawać wam za darmo miejsca do szerzenia swoich głupot.
Zdecydowanie NIE jest to też miejsce dla różnego rodzaju idiotów z lewicy autorytarnej. Mamy dość wszelkiego rodzaju zachodnich „specjalistów” od spraw Europy Wschodniej, powielających kremlowską propagandę i operujących dwubiegunowym modelem świata (Ameryka- źle , wszystko co przeciwko Ameryce-dobrze). Nie mamy zamiaru udostępniać miejsca na wywody jakiś hiszpańskich komunistycznych kretynów czy amerykańskich dzieci z sierpami i młotami na swoich profilach. Wasze poglądy to trucizna, nie stoimy po tej samej stronie i nigdy nie będziemy stali. Nie spotka was tutaj żadne zrozumienie, nie będziemy marnować czasu na jałowe debaty z politycznymi płaskoziemcami. Nie zapraszamy do dyskusji.(ENG)
Our social #media are not an #internet #debating #club, nor they are a #platform for all sorts of idiots to spread their #ideas.
Maybe some of you wondered why we delete some comments and ban some people from our media. Its very simple. Our profiles are here to inform about things important to us, about #social #struggles, to present interesting analysis from #anarchist (and not only) positions and to #remind forgotten #histories of #antifascist and #antiauthoritarian movement.
It is definitely NOT a place for all sorts of right wing and far right clowns. You have your own pages and #groups, where you can share your „wisdom” pulled out of your ass. We are neither interested, nor we are planning on giving you space to share them for free.
It is also definitely NOT a place for all sorts of authoritarian left idiots. We are fed up with all sorts of Western „specialists” of Eastern Europe, sharing Kremlin's propaganda and operating in two dimensional world (America-bad, everything against America-good). We are not planning on giving space to some Spanish communist idiots or American kids with hammers and sickles in their profiles. Your ideas are a poison, we are not on the same side and we will never be. You will not find any understanding here, we will not waste time on futile debates with political flat earthers. We do not invite you to the discussion."👉 161crew.bzzz.net
👉https://linktr.ee/161crewpoland
https://t.me/Poland_161Crew:antifa_100: :af: :anarchoheart3: :ironfront: :solidarity: :squat: :txt_eff_the_cops: :acab2: :acab: :tankies:
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Czy ktoś w ogóle nie słyszał o koncepcji kaizen? Chyba wszyscy już mają tego dosyć, co?
Sięgnąłem po książkę Maurera, żeby dowiedzieć się czegoś więcej, niż korpowersje kaizen dla bystrzaków. Generalnie zawsze uważałem poradniki za najgorszy sort literatury non fiction, takie papierowe pulpy zasrane oczywistościami i innymi bieda-mądrościami. Takie pisane wersje mówców motywacyjnych.
I WIECIE CO? I KURWA MIAŁEM RACJĘ
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On the easel today…
After six weeks of working on a larger canvas I am just not quite ready to share, I have started a 20 x16 inch oil on canvas of Arbutus Trees. Over the next couple of days I will finish it up wet-into-wet and then let it dry a bit possible before adding final highlights.
#Art #Gallery #ContemporaryArt #painting #LandscapePainting #TerrillWelch #WestCoast #SouthernGulfIslands #ArbutusTrees #Trees #Nature #MadronaTrees #MastoArt #ArtCollector #ThrivingInPlace #WorkInProgress #AYearForArt
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On the easel today…
After six weeks of working on a larger canvas I am just not quite ready to share, I have started a 20 x16 inch oil on canvas of Arbutus Trees. Over the next couple of days I will finish it up wet-into-wet and then let it dry a bit possible before adding final highlights.
#Art #Gallery #ContemporaryArt #painting #LandscapePainting #TerrillWelch #WestCoast #SouthernGulfIslands #ArbutusTrees #Trees #Nature #MadronaTrees #MastoArt #ArtCollector #ThrivingInPlace #WorkInProgress #AYearForArt
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On the easel today…
After six weeks of working on a larger canvas I am just not quite ready to share, I have started a 20 x16 inch oil on canvas of Arbutus Trees. Over the next couple of days I will finish it up wet-into-wet and then let it dry a bit possible before adding final highlights.
#Art #Gallery #ContemporaryArt #painting #LandscapePainting #TerrillWelch #WestCoast #SouthernGulfIslands #ArbutusTrees #Trees #Nature #MadronaTrees #MastoArt #ArtCollector #ThrivingInPlace #WorkInProgress #AYearForArt
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On the easel today…
After six weeks of working on a larger canvas I am just not quite ready to share, I have started a 20 x16 inch oil on canvas of Arbutus Trees. Over the next couple of days I will finish it up wet-into-wet and then let it dry a bit possible before adding final highlights.
#Art #Gallery #ContemporaryArt #painting #LandscapePainting #TerrillWelch #WestCoast #SouthernGulfIslands #ArbutusTrees #Trees #Nature #MadronaTrees #MastoArt #ArtCollector #ThrivingInPlace #WorkInProgress #AYearForArt
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#LexCorp Employees,
As your new CEO, I want to remind you that job stress is something we take very seriously.
So please remember that if you're feeling stressed, there's someone else who feels just as stressed as you, but also has a headache.
And if you feel stressed and have a headache, you're doing your part to set a good example for everyone else.
Dr. Maddox Kaplan
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Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: 'Brad Pitt Is an Abuser' Trends on Twitter After Celebs Drooled Over Him at the Golden Globes https://jezebel.com/brad-pitt-is-an-abuser-trends-on-twitter-after-celebs-d-1849975648 #Jezebel #americanpeopleofgermandescent #williampitt2c1stearlofchatham #80thgoldenglobesceremony #englishgivennames #thegoldenglobes #angelinajolie #quintabrunson #humaninterest #austinbutler #colinfarrell #occupations #britishmps #jeansmart #bradpitt #yahoo21 #maddox
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[2/2] For anyone interested in Joyce's connections to #Galway, I recommend the 2021 revised edition of "Joyce County" by Ray Burke (which, full disclosure, I copy-edited): https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2022/02/20/joyce-county-by-ray-burke/
There are countless books on Joyce's life and work; Richard Ellmann's is the best I've read. Brenda Maddox's biography of Nora is terrific, and Padraic Ó Laoi's is worth reading too
#JamesJoyce #NoraBarnacle #IrishLiterature #biography #books
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[2/2] For anyone interested in Joyce's connections to #Galway, I recommend the 2021 revised edition of "Joyce County" by Ray Burke (which, full disclosure, I copy-edited): https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2022/02/20/joyce-county-by-ray-burke/
There are countless books on Joyce's life and work; Richard Ellmann's is the best I've read. Brenda Maddox's biography of Nora is terrific, and Padraic Ó Laoi's is worth reading too
#JamesJoyce #NoraBarnacle #IrishLiterature #biography #books
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[2/2] For anyone interested in Joyce's connections to #Galway, I recommend the 2021 revised edition of "Joyce County" by Ray Burke (which, full disclosure, I copy-edited): https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2022/02/20/joyce-county-by-ray-burke/
There are countless books on Joyce's life and work; Richard Ellmann's is the best I've read. Brenda Maddox's biography of Nora is terrific, and Padraic Ó Laoi's is worth reading too
#JamesJoyce #NoraBarnacle #IrishLiterature #biography #books
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[2/2] For anyone interested in Joyce's connections to #Galway, I recommend the 2021 revised edition of "Joyce County" by Ray Burke (which, full disclosure, I copy-edited): https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2022/02/20/joyce-county-by-ray-burke/
There are countless books on Joyce's life and work; Richard Ellmann's is the best I've read. Brenda Maddox's biography of Nora is terrific, and Padraic Ó Laoi's is worth reading too
#JamesJoyce #NoraBarnacle #IrishLiterature #biography #books
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[2/2] For anyone interested in Joyce's connections to #Galway, I recommend the 2021 revised edition of "Joyce County" by Ray Burke (which, full disclosure, I copy-edited): https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2022/02/20/joyce-county-by-ray-burke/
There are countless books on Joyce's life and work; Richard Ellmann's is the best I've read. Brenda Maddox's biography of Nora is terrific, and Padraic Ó Laoi's is worth reading too
#JamesJoyce #NoraBarnacle #IrishLiterature #biography #books
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Its Sunday and I sing praises to my one of my favorite neighbors, the marvelous
# Coyote Bush (#Baccharis pilularis,) native to ca coastal chapparal habitats.
Coyote Bush, the house on the block where everyone's welcome and everyone hangs out. A warm hearted Grandma and Grandpa that takes care of everyone. A reliable babysitter. A favored safe place for deer, to take a nap, give birth, leave fawns while mama has lunch. Quail do the same. Favorite place for small birds to build nests. Coyote Bush harbors and rears young hardwoods. An acorn or madrone berry, who lands under a coyote bush has a good chance of becoming a full grown tree. Coyote bush blooms in late fall, and winter, is an important food source for insects, at a time of year when food is scarce.
Coyote Bush cares for the soil too. She is one of the best erosion control plants in existence. The upslope, dry ground, equivalent of Willow.
She holds her ground,
on a landslide,
the one part that doesn't slide has Coyote Bush.
Coyote Bush can be propagated by cuttings. 18" long, thumb sized canes can be planted directly in the ground during the rainy season, leaving 4 -6 " above ground. Happily grows in poor soil, on bare bank road cuts, and landslides.
Coyote Bush is one of my preferred bioengineering resource plants, excellent for constructing brush dams and branch packing, to stabilize gullies caused by culverts, and class 3 watercourses.
Coyote Bush has a fire resistant waxy resin on the leaves. A great drought tolerant landscaping plant, that can easily be pruned into a hedge. Coyote Bush has male and female plants.
# ErosionControl
# bioengineering #DroughtRestistant
# BrushDams #BranchPacking
# fall/winterBlooming
# CaNativePlants
# CoyoteBush #BaccharisPilularis
# ErosionControlPlants
# Chaparral
# Landscaping
# NativePlantLandscaping
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Well, mostly large ones now. Here is one of the 12 still available out of 40 of my Arbutus Tree paintings…
Storytelling Arbutus Tree Bennett Bay Mayne Island BC by Terrill Welch
Oil On Canvas
60 x 40 inchesArtist notes and more details available at: https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/terrill-welch/artwork/storytelling-arbutus-tree-bennett-bay-mayne-island-bc
All the best of a fine Friday and weekend ahead.
#art #OilPainting #nature #LandscapePainting #ContemporaryArt #MastoArt #ArtCollectors #ArtGallery #Painting #Arbutus #Madrona #tree #WestCoast
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I'm #RebekahJones, nerd, advocate, whistleblower, "darling of the media, " frmr candidate, mom and scientist.
I've won some things. Here are a few:
@Forbes first-ever Technology Person of the Year,
@Fortune #40under40
John Maddox Prize Nominee
Samuel Lawrence Prize Winner
bunch of academic stuffYou probably know me as the Florida #COVID19 #WHISTLEBLOWER and candidate for congress who ran against #RapeyMcForehead 2022.
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Listening to the recent John #Zerzan interview on #IGD provoked some thoughts and questions. First, I have never heard the IGD host get that saucy with anyone before, so its fair to assume Zerzan has done something at some point to alienate typically gracious comrades. I found Zerzan’s show in 2014/2015/2016 or so, before I found IGD, and understand him vaguely as an outsider and iconoclast among anarchists, which is saying something.
Although I do not claim to be the best-read (or even a reasonably well-read) Madrone, from what I understand, #anti-civ theory is rooted in the fundamentally Rousseauian idea that the establishment of civilization was the original fall from grace, that civilization is tantamount to technology and concentration of power, and therefore to corruption and inevitable tyranny, not to mention unsustainable growth and destruction of the ecosystem. Although I have questions, I generally find the theory sympathetic.
I learned about it entirely from listening to, reading, and reading about Zerzan. So, I have to confess that, despite his quirks, I kind of like him and experienced a small allergy in listening to another person I like, the IGD host, being so offhandedly dismissive about his ideas. To be fair, Zerzan has an aloof tone of his own, and the way he stepped over the international justice campaigns featured in Crimthinc’s How to Change Everything tour in order to criticize the tour insufficiently Changing Everything was, to put it mildly, especially shitty.
Some of my questions about anti-civ theory are: How far does it go? Is society itself tantamount to civilization? Would keeping a post-civ society from reverting to civilization be its own form of tyranny? Must the fruits of civilization be discarded along with its poisons? Is medicine technology? Art? Language? As I understood anti-civ prior to the interview, the answer to all of these questions is more or less “yes.”
Zerzan stepped back from that position a bit during the interview: he seemed to argue that anti-civ argues for an expansion of skills and not that everyone should go into the woods to hunt and gather tomorrow, that it is not a silver bullet to all of our problems under present conditions. That argument sounds familiar: anti-civ’s job, like anarchism, is to critique and reframe, not solve and ‘explain everything to you.’ While valid, that argument sidesteps what I consider to be a serious question: if present circumstances take anti-civ’s utopia off the table, then what does it prescribe we do to present circumstances other than expand skills and retreat from technology? Is harm reduction reformist? Is anti-civ accelerationist? Because this is where I find my greatest concern about (what I understand to be) the theory: that anti-civ appears to value the end of civilization more than it does helping people survive and thrive the here and now. Zerzan appeared to prove the point when he stepped over chose to criticize the purity of Crimthinc’s radical branding rather than honoring the peoples movements it featured, which are actually fighting for justice here and now. To be fair, Zerzan’s argument was rooted (at least rhetorically) in being accountable to a meaningful strategy and avoiding performative posturing, which are serious considerations. But it was a red flag for me.
So, Zerzan, I suppose my question is: does anti-civ have something to add when it comes to short and/or long-term strategies for radical degrowth that include harm reduction for those most hurt by that change? -
Startups Weekly: Will the Seattle tech scene ever reach its full potential? - Greetings from Seattle, the land of Amazon, Microsoft, two of the world’s richest men and some start... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/1CdYT7QMNvE/ #u.s.securitiesandexchangecommission #chiefexecutiveofficer #madronaventuregroup #venturecapitalfunds #unshackledventures #pioneersquarelabs #editor-in-chief #venturecapital #jungleventures #traviskalanick #howardschultz #menloventures #lyft
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Those “100 Best Novels of All Time”
As it does from time to time, The Grauniad has compiled a list of what it claims are the best somethings. This time it was novels. The full list with an explanation of how the list was compiled, clickable links to comments and pictures of the book covers can be found here, but I’ve reproduced a simplified version below:
1. Middlemarch – George Eliot
2. Beloved – Toni Morrison
3. Ulysses – James Joyce
4. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
5. In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust
6. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
7. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
8. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
9. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
10. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
11. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
13. Emma – Jane Austen
14. Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
15. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
16. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
17. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
18. Persuasion – Jane Austen
19. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
20. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
21. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
22. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
23. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
24. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
25. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
26. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
27. The Trial – Franz Kafka
28. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
30. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
31. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
32. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
33. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
34. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
35. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
36. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
37. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
38. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
39. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
40. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
41. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
42. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
43. Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
44. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
45. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
46. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
47. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
48. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
49. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
50. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
51. My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
52. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
53. The Transit of Venus – Shirley Hazzard
54. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
55. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
56. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
57. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
58. Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee
59. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
60. Howards End – E.M. Forster
61. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
62. Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
63. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
64. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
65. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
66. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
67. The Man Without Qualities – Rubert Musil
68. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
69. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
70. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
71. Kindred – Octavia E. Butler
72. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
73. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
74. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
75. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
76. Dracula – Bram Stoker
77. The Rainbow – DH Lawrence
78. A House for Mr Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
79. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
80. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
81. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
82. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
83. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
84. The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
85. The Vegetarian – Han Kang
86. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
87. The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
88. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
89. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
90. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
91. Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman
92. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
93. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
94. The Known World – Edward P. Jones
95. The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
96. Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo
97. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
98. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
99. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
100. My Ántonia – Willa CatherSuch lists are a bit silly, except for the fact that they might encourage people (including myself) to read more books, which is a good thing. I wouldn’t compile a ranking myself as I don’t think of books in terms of league tables. I don’t see how you can sensibly compare very different types of novel or novels from very different eras. Nevertheless, I couldn’t resist counting how many books on the list I have read. If you want to know the answer, it is 42. I’ll let you guess which ones.
I have read the Number 1 novel, Middlemarch and, although I thought it was very good, it surprises me to find it at the top of the list, above Ulysses The highest-ranked book I haven’t read is No. 2, Beloved. There are several others on the list that I’ve never even heard of let alone read. The only book on the list that I did at school was No. 78. A House for Mr Biswas, which I didn’t think was all that great. I’ve been meaning to read Tristram Shandy (No. 19) but I think I’ll get that out of the library rather than buying it.
To save you counting, here are the authors with multiple entries:
5 – Virginia Woolf
4 – Jane Austen
4 – Charles Dickens
3 – Henry James
3 – Toni Morrison
2 – James Baldwin
2 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 – Gustave Flaubert
2 – Thomas Hardy
2 – Kazuo Ishiguro
2 – Franz Kafka
2 – Thomas Mann
2 – Cormac McCarthy
2 – Vladimir Nabokov
2 – W.G. Sebald
2 – Leo TolstoyI haven’t read anything by either Sebald or McCarthy or Flaubert. Among the omissions that surprised me are The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway, The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I’m not saying that any or all of these would be on my list, just that I’m surprised they don’t appear on the Guardian‘s.
If anyone would like to comment – especially with other notable omissions – please feel free to do so through the box below.
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Those “100 Best Novels of All Time”
As it does from time to time, The Grauniad has compiled a list of what it claims are the best somethings. This time it was novels. The full list with an explanation of how the list was compiled, clickable links to comments and pictures of the book covers can be found here, but I’ve reproduced a simplified version below:
1. Middlemarch – George Eliot
2. Beloved – Toni Morrison
3. Ulysses – James Joyce
4. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
5. In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust
6. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
7. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
8. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
9. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
10. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
11. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
13. Emma – Jane Austen
14. Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
15. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
16. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
17. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
18. Persuasion – Jane Austen
19. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
20. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
21. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
22. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
23. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
24. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
25. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
26. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
27. The Trial – Franz Kafka
28. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
30. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
31. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
32. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
33. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
34. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
35. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
36. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
37. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
38. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
39. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
40. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
41. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
42. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
43. Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
44. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
45. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
46. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
47. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
48. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
49. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
50. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
51. My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
52. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
53. The Transit of Venus – Shirley Hazzard
54. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
55. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
56. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
57. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
58. Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee
59. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
60. Howards End – E.M. Forster
61. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
62. Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
63. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
64. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
65. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
66. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
67. The Man Without Qualities – Rubert Musil
68. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
69. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
70. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
71. Kindred – Octavia E. Butler
72. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
73. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
74. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
75. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
76. Dracula – Bram Stoker
77. The Rainbow – DH Lawrence
78. A House for Mr Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
79. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
80. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
81. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
82. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
83. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
84. The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
85. The Vegetarian – Han Kang
86. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
87. The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
88. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
89. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
90. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
91. Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman
92. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
93. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
94. The Known World – Edward P. Jones
95. The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
96. Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo
97. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
98. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
99. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
100. My Ántonia – Willa CatherSuch lists are a bit silly, except for the fact that they might encourage people (including myself) to read more books, which is a good thing. I wouldn’t compile a ranking myself as I don’t think of books in terms of league tables. “Best” according to what criterion? I don’t see how you can sensibly compare very different types of novel or novels from very different eras. Nevertheless, I couldn’t resist counting how many books on the list I have read. If you want to know the answer, it is 42. I’ll let you guess which ones.
I have read the Number 1 novel, Middlemarch and, although I thought it was very good, it surprises me to find it at the top of the list, above Ulysses The highest-ranked book I haven’t read is No. 2, Beloved. There are several others on the list that I’ve never even heard of let alone read. The only book on the list that I did at school was No. 78. A House for Mr Biswas, which I didn’t think was all that great. I’ve been meaning to read Tristram Shandy (No. 19) but I think I’ll get that out of the library rather than buying it.
To save you counting, here are the authors with multiple entries:
5 – Virginia Woolf
4 – Jane Austen
4 – Charles Dickens
3 – Henry James
3 – Toni Morrison
2 – James Baldwin
2 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 – Gustave Flaubert
2 – Thomas Hardy
2 – Kazuo Ishiguro
2 – Franz Kafka
2 – Thomas Mann
2 – Cormac McCarthy
2 – Vladimir Nabokov
2 – W.G. Sebald
2 – Leo TolstoyI haven’t read anything by either Sebald or McCarthy or Flaubert. Among the omissions that surprised me are The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway, The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I’m not saying that any or all of these would be on my list, just that I’m surprised they don’t appear on the Guardian‘s.
If anyone would like to comment – perhaps with other notable omissions or novels that are on the list but you feel shouldn’t be – please feel free to do so through the box below.
#100BestNovels #Guardian #literature -
Those “100 Best Novels of All Time”
As it does from time to time, The Grauniad has compiled a list of what it claims are the best somethings. This time it was novels. The full list with an explanation of how the list was compiled, clickable links to comments and pictures of the book covers can be found here, but I’ve reproduced a simplified version below:
1. Middlemarch – George Eliot
2. Beloved – Toni Morrison
3. Ulysses – James Joyce
4. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
5. In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust
6. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
7. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
8. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
9. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
10. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
11. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
13. Emma – Jane Austen
14. Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
15. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
16. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
17. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
18. Persuasion – Jane Austen
19. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
20. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
21. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
22. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
23. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
24. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
25. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
26. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
27. The Trial – Franz Kafka
28. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
30. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
31. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
32. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
33. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
34. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
35. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
36. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
37. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
38. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
39. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
40. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
41. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
42. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
43. Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
44. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
45. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
46. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
47. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
48. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
49. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
50. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
51. My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
52. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
53. The Transit of Venus – Shirley Hazzard
54. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
55. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
56. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
57. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
58. Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee
59. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
60. Howards End – E.M. Forster
61. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
62. Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
63. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
64. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
65. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
66. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
67. The Man Without Qualities – Rubert Musil
68. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
69. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
70. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
71. Kindred – Octavia E. Butler
72. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
73. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
74. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
75. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
76. Dracula – Bram Stoker
77. The Rainbow – DH Lawrence
78. A House for Mr Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
79. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
80. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
81. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
82. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
83. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
84. The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
85. The Vegetarian – Han Kang
86. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
87. The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
88. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
89. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
90. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
91. Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman
92. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
93. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
94. The Known World – Edward P. Jones
95. The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
96. Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo
97. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
98. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
99. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
100. My Ántonia – Willa CatherSuch lists are a bit silly, except for the fact that they might encourage people (including myself) to read more books, which is a good thing. I wouldn’t compile a ranking myself as I don’t think of books in terms of league tables. I don’t see how you can sensibly compare very different types of novel or novels from very different eras. Nevertheless, I couldn’t resist counting how many books on the list I have read. If you want to know the answer, it is 42. I’ll let you guess which ones.
I have read the Number 1 novel, Middlemarch and, although I thought it was very good, it surprises me to find it at the top of the list, above Ulysses The highest-ranked book I haven’t read is No. 2, Beloved. There are several others on the list that I’ve never even heard of let alone read. The only book on the list that I did at school was No. 78. A House for Mr Biswas, which I didn’t think was all that great. I’ve been meaning to read Tristram Shandy (No. 19) but I think I’ll get that out of the library rather than buying it.
To save you counting, here are the authors with multiple entries:
5 – Virginia Woolf
4 – Jane Austen
4 – Charles Dickens
3 – Henry James
3 – Toni Morrison
2 – James Baldwin
2 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 – Gustave Flaubert
2 – Thomas Hardy
2 – Kazuo Ishiguro
2 – Franz Kafka
2 – Thomas Mann
2 – Cormac McCarthy
2 – Vladimir Nabokov
2 – W.G. Sebald
2 – Leo TolstoyI haven’t read anything by either Sebald or McCarthy or Flaubert. Among the omissions that surprised me are The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway, The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I’m not saying that any or all of these would be on my list, just that I’m surprised they don’t appear on the Guardian‘s.
If anyone would like to comment – especially with other notable omissions – please feel free to do so through the box below.
#100BestNovels #Guardian #literature -
Those “100 Best Novels of All Time”
As it does from time to time, The Grauniad has compiled a list of what it claims are the best somethings. This time it was novels. The full list with an explanation of how the list was compiled, clickable links to comments and pictures of the book covers can be found here, but I’ve reproduced a simplified version below:
1. Middlemarch – George Eliot
2. Beloved – Toni Morrison
3. Ulysses – James Joyce
4. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
5. In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust
6. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
7. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
8. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
9. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
10. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
11. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
13. Emma – Jane Austen
14. Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
15. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
16. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
17. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
18. Persuasion – Jane Austen
19. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
20. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
21. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
22. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
23. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
24. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
25. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
26. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
27. The Trial – Franz Kafka
28. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
30. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
31. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
32. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
33. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
34. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
35. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
36. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
37. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
38. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
39. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
40. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
41. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
42. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
43. Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
44. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
45. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
46. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
47. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
48. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
49. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
50. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
51. My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
52. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
53. The Transit of Venus – Shirley Hazzard
54. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
55. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
56. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
57. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
58. Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee
59. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
60. Howards End – E.M. Forster
61. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
62. Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
63. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
64. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
65. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
66. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
67. The Man Without Qualities – Rubert Musil
68. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
69. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
70. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
71. Kindred – Octavia E. Butler
72. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
73. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
74. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
75. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
76. Dracula – Bram Stoker
77. The Rainbow – DH Lawrence
78. A House for Mr Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
79. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
80. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
81. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
82. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
83. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
84. The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
85. The Vegetarian – Han Kang
86. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
87. The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
88. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
89. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
90. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
91. Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman
92. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
93. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
94. The Known World – Edward P. Jones
95. The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
96. Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo
97. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
98. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
99. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
100. My Ántonia – Willa CatherSuch lists are a bit silly, except for the fact that they might encourage people (including myself) to read more books, which is a good thing. I wouldn’t compile a ranking myself as I don’t think of books in terms of league tables. “Best” according to what criterion? I don’t see how you can sensibly compare very different types of novel or novels from very different eras. Nevertheless, I couldn’t resist counting how many books on the list I have read. If you want to know the answer, it is 42. I’ll let you guess which ones.
I have read the Number 1 novel, Middlemarch and, although I thought it was very good, it surprises me to find it at the top of the list, above Ulysses The highest-ranked book I haven’t read is No. 2, Beloved. There are several others on the list that I’ve never even heard of let alone read. The only book on the list that I did at school was No. 78. A House for Mr Biswas, which I didn’t think was all that great. I’ve been meaning to read Tristram Shandy (No. 19) but I think I’ll get that out of the library rather than buying it.
To save you counting, here are the authors with multiple entries:
5 – Virginia Woolf
4 – Jane Austen
4 – Charles Dickens
3 – Henry James
3 – Toni Morrison
2 – James Baldwin
2 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 – Gustave Flaubert
2 – Thomas Hardy
2 – Kazuo Ishiguro
2 – Franz Kafka
2 – Thomas Mann
2 – Cormac McCarthy
2 – Vladimir Nabokov
2 – W.G. Sebald
2 – Leo TolstoyI haven’t read anything by either Sebald or McCarthy or Flaubert. Among the omissions that surprised me are The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway, The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I’m not saying that any or all of these would be on my list, just that I’m surprised they don’t appear on the Guardian‘s.
If anyone would like to comment – perhaps with other notable omissions or novels that are on the list but you feel shouldn’t be – please feel free to do so through the box below.
#100BestNovels #Guardian #literature