Published On Aug 18, 2022
The Times recently created a list of books which they claim are the 40 best novels from the past century. I discuss my thoughts and feelings about these titles. Click ‘Show More’ for info & links.
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The Times 40 Best Books of the Century: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/be...
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Books discussed & purchase links:
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
https://tidd.ly/3CbPa3S
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
https://tidd.ly/3QuSbjQ
Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
https://tidd.ly/3w6WYjr
Lady Chatterley's Lover – DH Lawrence
https://tidd.ly/3AhcIjK
Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
https://tidd.ly/3zZvldd
The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
https://tidd.ly/3CaIO4C
Never Mind – Edward St Aubyn
https://tidd.ly/3QL0YOj
Half a Yellow Sun – Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
https://tidd.ly/3bqcIqv
The Death of the Heart – Elizabeth Bowen
https://tidd.ly/3JZ7jUj
Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout
https://tidd.ly/38BFEKL
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
https://tidd.ly/3A1Du0C
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
https://tidd.ly/3AoFz8k
The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
https://tidd.ly/3pl363B
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
https://tidd.ly/3wNu9rn
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
https://tidd.ly/3QJf4jp
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
https://tidd.ly/3Qvp93y
Atonement – Ian McEwan
https://tidd.ly/3w7TvAZ
A House for Mr Biswas – VS Naipaul
https://tidd.ly/3AppeQP
The Blue Flower – Penelope Fitzgerald
https://tidd.ly/3jSqVxi
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
https://tidd.ly/3wtt5u5
Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
https://tidd.ly/3CeyatP
Disgrace – JM Coetzee
https://tidd.ly/3PrbgSP
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
https://tidd.ly/38Zb7Xz
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
https://tidd.ly/357SJcC
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
https://tidd.ly/3MxAtKy
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
https://tidd.ly/3dnGxIU
Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
https://tidd.ly/3SSgOsi
A Passage to India – EM Forster
https://tidd.ly/3pmwSFf
The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
https://tidd.ly/3zYauH5
Giovanni's Room – James Baldwin
https://tidd.ly/3AmeO4u
Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
https://tidd.ly/3reHXXm
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
https://tidd.ly/3QK3dBA
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
https://tidd.ly/3QO5yvu
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
https://tidd.ly/3QKEehn
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
https://tidd.ly/3Qrmrwc
Beloved – Toni Morrison
https://tidd.ly/3bSi4LH
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
https://tidd.ly/3Qujafl
Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
https://tidd.ly/3polHfc
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
https://tidd.ly/3k7aIDt
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
https://tidd.ly/3k3ZhMR
My reviews of some of these books:
Lady Chatterley's Lover – DH Lawrence
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/...
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2020/...
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2014/...
The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2019/...
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2016/...
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