100 novels everyone should read

Dwight

I have read just 17 of the original 100. I must have enjoyed them all or I wouldn't have kept reading them. Oh, I tell a lie. Did not enjoy the Sartre one l'Etranger, which I read in French for some exam or other. Strangely, I DID enjoy l'Immoraliste, with the help of a dictionary.

Red

I've done 24 books on that list, although very surprised not to see others up there that I have read.

Stirling

They pretty much feel like the 'obvious' choices don't they?

Red

I think you're right, Stirling. Although I do wonder just how many people have actually read Joyce's epic tome?

Stirling

I've read Dubliners (enjoyed it - and learned a lot about first and third person), but not Ulysseus. Disappointed that there is no Angela Carter.

I preferred The Woman In White to The Moonstone.

purplebeetlewings

Handmaids Tale is nowhere near as good as Alias Grace

Red

No Huxley or W. Somerset Maugham...

Dwight

American writers get a very poor look-in. I would be disgusted on behalf of my country's literary heritage.

Oh I forgot about The Moonstone, Stirling. That lifts me to 18.

*SA*

I've read 10 on the list, and have another 15 on my bookshelves. I hadn't heard of a few of them, which bothers me a bit. Am I an illiterate? hahaha!!

*SA*

Jay Mandal

Dwight: "Did not enjoy the Sartre one l'Etranger".

Surely Camus wrote it?

forget-me-not

I really enjoyed 'L'estranger', though I read the british translation "The Outsider" (the american translates it to "The Stranger"), I ended up doing my Advanced English Dissertation on it in High School. I just absolutely love how it opens.

Dwight

Thanks for that, Jay. So I wonder who wrote 'L'Immoraliste'?

FMT, perhaps I should re-read it in English, and enjoy it. At the time it was a chore.

Patrick

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