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Reacting to the recent Guardian list of their 100 best books of the 21st century. I agree with some and really disagree with others! I also discuss some titles I think should be added. Let me know your thoughts on the list in the commends. Click ‘Show More’ for info.
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Guardian article:
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The Most Important Books of the 21st Century - So Far! (Vulture article response)
• The Most Important Boo...
100 21st Century Novels to Love (The Times article response)
• 100 21st Century Novel...
My rant video on Days Without End by Sebastian Barry: • Why I'm Really Angry A...
Some of the books I discuss:
Bad Blood by Lorna Sage: www.bookdeposi...
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara: www.bookdeposi...
Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli: www.bookdeposi...
Harvest by Jim Crace: www.bookdeposi...
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk: www.bookdeposi...
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry: www.bookdeposi...
Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware: www.bookdeposi...
Underland by Robert Macfarlane: www.bookdeposi...
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin: www.bookdeposi...
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood: www.bookdeposi...
Atonement by Ian McEwan: www.bookdeposi...
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion: www.bookdeposi...
White Teeth by Zadie Smith: www.bookdeposi...
Outline by Rachel Cusk: www.bookdeposi...
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson: www.bookdeposi...
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead: www.bookdeposi...
Normal People by Sally Rooney: www.bookdeposi...
The Road by Cormac McCarthy: www.bookdeposi...
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth: www.bookdeposi...
Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: www.bookdeposi...
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell: www.bookdeposi...
Autumn by Ali Smith: www.bookdeposi...
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel: www.bookdeposi...
More on the 6 books I would add:
Lovely, Dark, Deep by Joyce Carol Oates
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Mrs Engels by Gavin McCrea
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What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
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The Years by Annie Ernaux (translated by Alison L Strayer)
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Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
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Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
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