Books #42

[LaBlonde]

Would people be interested in us doing our own list? Posters give a Top 10 and I'll compile them into an overall list?

There might not be enough of us to get 100 novels but I bet it would be more varied!

omg can you give me a full business week to think about it

seriously, i love this idea. give me a couple of hours to consider and i’ll be back

 

[Carapop]

Would people be interested in us doing our own list? Posters give a Top 10 and I'll compile them into an overall list?

There might not be enough of us to get 100 novels but I bet it would be more varied!

Ooooh I love this, thank you! I was just doing this with a friend yesterday so I’m good to go, my top ten but in alphabetical order because I cannot rank:

Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
Foster by Claire Keegan
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Oh, William by Elizabeth Strout
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

 

[LaBlonde]

Would people be interested in us doing our own list? Posters give a Top 10 and I'll compile them into an overall list?

There might not be enough of us to get 100 novels but I bet it would be more varied!

i’m back! this aren’t ranked because frankly i refuse and it would be impossible but:

the age of innocence - edith wharton
les miserables - victor hugo
the count of monte cristo - alexandre dumas
the goldfinch - donna tartt
in memoriam - alice winn
amazing adventures of kavalier&clay - michael chabon
middlesex - jeffrey eugenides
home - marilynne robinson
the great believers - rebecca makkai
half of the human race - anthony quinn

this would change any given day you asked me but this is what i’m going with right now

 

[shhh1712]

I finished the off campus series today and really enjoyed it. I haven’t read the books but would like to so had a look on vinted and people are selling them at stupid prices!

 

[Harlot O'Scara]

Should add my own since I started it

Also in alphabetical order:

1984 - George Orwell
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Emma - Jane Austen
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Shogun - James Clavell
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle


Also would probably change if asked again tomorrow!

I'll give it a week for anyone who wants to do a list and post the final one next Sunday.

 

[Hannahebee]

Would people be interested in us doing our own list? Posters give a Top 10 and I'll compile them into an overall list?

There might not be enough of us to get 100 novels but I bet it would be more varied!

My top 10 but in a random order:
The Allotment Girls by Kate Thompson
The Desperate Bride's Diet Club by Alison Sherlock
Death By A Cornish Cove by Fliss Chester
Bella's Christmas Bake Off by Sue Watson
Girl in Red Velvet by Margaret James
Shouting the Odds by Jon Franklin
A Child for Sale by Pam Howes
One Left Alive by Helen Phifer
Summer Flings and Dancing Dreams by Sue Watson
The Hollywood Governess by Alexandra Weston

 

[Katykatykaty]

I’ve gone through my five stars on Goodreads and picked the ten that made the most impact on me and/or ones I love to reread. In alphabetical order -

• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
• Frank and Red - Matt Coyne
• Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
• Saving Noah - Lucinda Berry
• Such Quiet Girls - Noelle Ilhi
• Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins
• The End of Men - Christina Sweeney-Baird
• The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
• The Stranger in her House - John Marrs
• Three Hours - Rosamund Lupton

 

[MissHavisham]

No particular order, cannot guarantee I'd compile the same list next week, only two male authors, and two novels with the surname Mole in the title!

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (agree that the Guardian list containing zero Collins but multiple Dickens is crap)
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
Prep - Curtis Sittenfeld
Good Behaviour - Molly Keane
Miss Mole - EH Young
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
The Country Girls - Edna O'Brien
The Code of the Woosters - PG Wodehouse

 

[StephenTJackson]

Should add my own since I started it

Also in alphabetical order:

1984 - George Orwell
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Emma - Jane Austen
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Shogun - James Clavell
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle


Also would probably change if asked again tomorrow!

I'll give it a week for anyone who wants to do a list and post the final one next Sunday.

Picked up 1984 today in my favourite charity shop for £1 today. So looking forward to finally reading this next when I finish my current read, I have extremely high expectations.

 

[daisynoon]

Also not a fixed list, but here goes!

1. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
3. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
4. Kindred - Octavia E Butler
5. Stoner - John Williams
6. Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
7. Small Island - Andrea Levy
8. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
9. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
10. Beloved - Toni Morrison

 

[LaBlonde]

Also not a fixed list, but here goes!

1. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
3. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
4. Kindred - Octavia E Butler
5. Stoner - John Williams
6. Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
7. Small Island - Andrea Levy
8. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
9. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
10. Beloved - Toni Morrison

i can’t believe i had no room for the mill on the floss that would be my number 11!

@MissHavisham - i always welcome a fellow
wilkie collins fan! armadale would be my number 12 if only i could include it.

yes i’m aware i’m technically breaking the ten book rule here, forgive me 🥲

 

[Carapop]

I am enjoying this so much, I’m going to read me some classics this summer, and they’re basically free on kindle…

 

[Carapop]

i can’t believe i had no room for the mill on the floss that would be my number 11!

@MissHavisham - i always welcome a fellow
wilkie collins fan! armadale would be my number 12 if only i could include it.

yes i’m aware i’m technically breaking the ten book rule here, forgive me 🥲

You’re gonna have a top twenty before the week is out 🫣

 

[wishiniwasskinny]

Will think of my Top 10 - but fear it may not be impressive!
Just saw Homegoing in someone’s and I’m currently reading this! Only 50 pages in but really enjoying.

Also I’ve seen a few that I’ve heard reviewed on the The Book Club podcast - A Woman in White and The Hound of the Baskervilles particularly I’ve listened to them evaluate recently. If anyone is interested, it’s a really good analysis of the
Books they read. Really well informed, broken down and rated at the end. It’s Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett and they have a great rapport and discuss interesting books. I’m listing everything they do I haven’t read so I can pick it up.

 

[AllieBee]

My favourites list, there are probably many many more but these jump to my mind first. Ive just gone off the top of my head, first 10 that spring to mind

Death In The Spires - KJ Charles
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
1984 - George Orwell (now have a craving to read it again!)
The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
The Eights - Joanna Miller
The Bookbinder of Jericho - Pip Williams
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Before My Actual Heart Breaks - Tish Delaney
Don't Let Him In - Lisa Jewell.

 

[Harlot O'Scara]

Reading everybody else's lists is making me annoyed at books I didn't put on mine even though I couldn't possibly have fit them all on

 

[Harlot O'Scara]

Should add my own since I started it

Also in alphabetical order:

1984 - George Orwell
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Emma - Jane Austen
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Shogun - James Clavell
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle


Also would probably change if asked again tomorrow!

I'll give it a week for anyone who wants to do a list and post the final one next Sunday.

WOLF HALL. I FORGOT WOLF HALL.

Honourable mention, I guess

 

[ahkrin]

In no particular order but numbered so I don't miscount:

1) All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
2) Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
3) The Shepherd's Crown - Terry Pratchett
4) Sistersong - Lucy Holland
5) The Stone Book Quartet - Alan Garner
6) The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
7) Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
8) The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K Le Guin
9) The Lion of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay
10) The Picts and the Martyrs - Arthur Ransome

 

[QueenBW]

Would people be interested in us doing our own list? Posters give a Top 10 and I'll compile them into an overall list?

There might not be enough of us to get 100 novels but I bet it would be more varied!

Omg I love this!

1. My Brilliant Friend by Elana Ferrante

* pressed post by mistake lol
2. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
3. Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
4.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
5. Little Universes by Heather Demetrios
6. Circe by Madeline Miller
7. Le Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas
8. Book Lovers by Emily Henry
9. The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
10. The Blood Years by Elana K. Arnold

 

[pinkmug]

12/100 on the Guardian list but The Count of Monte Cristo not being on there is ridiculous