100 Novels that Shaped Our World | BBC | Trendsetting Novels

[@cliffordhodge1449]

Everyone recognizes that something is wrong here, so I think the explanation for this list is this: 1)They are listing trendsetting novels, presumably in the sense of having an influence on what others (including the best-selling flavors of the day) would write. They are not necessarily trying to list important literature. 2) The focus is on English language novels. 3) Also I guess this assignment may have been handed to almost any ad hoc BBC employee committee.

[@HamidKhan-sk3dn]

The last point is ,hilariously, on the spot!!!!

[@omicroneridani7456]

It was rather predictable. Mere ethnocentrism...

[@kwil5379]

No Tolstoy, no Dostoevsky and did that really say Mark Shelley wrote Frankenstein? .......This is the BBC!

[@Allod7]

hard to imagine some people are still interested in tolstoevsky which is just a propaganda of russki mir

[@alecfoster4413]

@@Allod7 Oh please!!! You are a bigot! You are also некультурный!

[@alecfoster4413]

The BBC are remedially stupid just like most of the MSM here in the US!

[@thomassmith6232]

What happened to Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand? How about Huckelberry Finn by Mark Twain and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood?

[@petergibson2035]

How have novels written within the last 10 years shaped our world? This is a list of somebody’s favourite reads which I appreciate but definitely not world shaping.

[@DanKaraJordan]

They did not even list the world's first novel, Don Quixote, or the first English novel, Robinson Crusoe. Surely the first novels ever written are influencial, right?

[@csbenzo]

I never get tired of reading Robinson Crusoe. What makes it all the more enjoyable is that it was banned in the Soviet Union at one stage, I do believe, but I read Stalin gave a copy in Russian to one of his children.

[@minzblatt]

The moment I saw Twilight Saga I knew this list garbage lol

[@marthacanady9441]

Exactly

[@mildredalayon7095]

Agree

[@Aadrian7]

Good video. But where's Crime and Punishment, War and Peace, A man called Ove, etc.. Hell, Dracula popularised the vampire genre, which brought us Castlevania, Twilight and Nosferatu.

[@davidgagen9856]

Work experience kid who works coupla hours for the BBC after school on a Wednesday arvo made this list.

[@christophervanzoest1171]

Did that really say Mark Shelly wrote Frankenstein?

[@jasonmacomber4020]

It's almost like the media is incapable of telling the truth.

[@rodrigovalerosancho2234]

No Dostoyevsky, no Tolstoy, no Cervantes, no Kafka, no Zola, no Flaubert…. What kind of shitty list is this? Ah, of course, the crappy biased BBC. Utter excrement, even if there are some great books here and there. How shameful really.

[@VivianBenabese]

Jose Rizal's Noli Mi Tangere and El Filibusterismo

[@amth6888]

I have so far read 3500 books and I know what book reading is. But the list presented here is British oriented .

[@carpelibrum0811]

Hardly world shaping

[@philliplipple1799]

Interesting selection, but where is the justification for some of them.

[@sandeepjoshi8280]

Where's - The Midnight Children, Satanic Verses, The White Tiger, Life of Pi,

[@balachandrankc6186]

It is not these novels shapped my life

[@katiesethna]

Some of these are short stories.

[@anakinskywalker8859]

The fact that you put Twilight above Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter is criminal

[@TheLogicalConnection]

Thanks for sharing your opinion! I totally understand where you're coming from, but the list is actually in chronological order based on publication dates, not preference. 1813 to 2019.

[@lisahall1700]

You left out The Bible, the Koran, Shakespeare for the Diary of Briget Jones? I mean it was cute but hardly world shaping.

[@DanKaraJordan]

Bridget Jones' Diary is literally just a retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was an influenced novel, not an influencial novel. I do agree with omiting Shakespeare and the Bible, etc. because they are not novels. That said, they did not even list the world's first novel, Don Quixote, or the first English novel, Robinson Crusoe. Surely they are influencial.

[@thebossman60]

I've read 6

[@minzblatt]

This video definitely needs a dislike count.

[@psikeyhackr6914]

We are not in Kansas anymore: *Daemon* & *Freedom* (2006) by Daniel Suarez Get a grip Toto!

[@AlejandroPuerto-pg5pq]

The title of this list should be “My 100 favorite books of English literature. Evidently, this is a compilation of English literature, as the rest of the world literature is completely absent. Furthermore, the author of the list confuses relevant literature with commercially successful ($$$) literature. The Twilight Saga is unbelievably poor quality (perhaps the reason of its success). He forgot many authors such as Joyce, Becket, Wilde, just to mention some.

[@marthacanady9441]

How did they come up with THIS list? What was their agenda? Diversity and inclusion and equity for the most part.

[@georgiinazarenko5490]

Khuinia

[@jorgesuarez7073]

This list is a joke, right? It seems they focused on the most boring novels they could find.

[@robertnagy985]

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