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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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Books discussed & purchase links:
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
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The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
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Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
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Lady Chatterley's Lover - DH Lawrence
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Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
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The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
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Never Mind - Edward St Aubyn
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Half a Yellow Sun - Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen
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Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
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The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
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The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
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The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
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Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
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The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
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The Color Purple - Alice Walker
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Atonement - Ian McEwan
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A House for Mr Biswas - VS Naipaul
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The Blue Flower - Penelope Fitzgerald
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Lord of the Flies - William Golding
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Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
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Disgrace - JM Coetzee
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The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
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A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
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The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
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Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
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Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
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A Passage to India - EM Forster
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The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
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Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
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Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
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Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
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Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
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To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
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Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
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Beloved - Toni Morrison
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
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Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
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Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
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The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
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My reviews of some of these books:
Lady Chatterley's Lover - DH Lawrence
lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/...
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
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Lord of the Flies - William Golding
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The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
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Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
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