“Lists procreate; they give rise to other lists” Margaret Atwood
The Guardian posted a(nother) list of 100 novels, “the best of all times”, gathered from authors, critics and academics worldwide polled by the journal. Out of which I only read 57, with the remaining 43 vacillating between classics I missed and others I had not even heard of. Somewhat predictable and very much favouring books in English. With several Victorian books, e.g. those of Jane Austen, Emily Brontë and Charles Dickens. Here is my read sublist, where I am glad to see Greenes’ End of the Affair, Grossman’s Life and Fate, McCarthy’s The Road, Naipaul’s House for Mr Biswas, Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness, but sad of seeing no Hugo’s, no Dinesen’s, no Chandler’s and no Céline…
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