As someone who didn't grow up in an English speaking country I've hardly read any ... I know there are many international novels on this list but it's still over 50% English/American. I've only read 1984, Lord of the rings, Lord of the flies. And only 1984 in school.
I read 22 on the list. Some of them I've read so long I need to re-read. I enjoyed reading the list of books to remember my own feelings about them. For example I read 'As I Lay Dying' and did and illustration in pen and ink for my illustration class. I read Kafka's 'The Trial' but all I can remember is the cheap paperback edition that also included the story of Gregor Samsa (I forgot the title). I would nominate 'Bleak House' by Dickens. I think it is a great book and Esther Summerson is a great character. I think people misunderstand her as a timid milksop. That is how she portrays herself in her account of her story. When you read how she treats Mr. Guppy you know that she understands her own value, but she is a Victorian woman and portrays herself as one.
Girl, I totally feel you on the Shakespeare plays. I was an English major and had to read them throughout high school too haha. Also, you should definitely read Lord of the Flies. It's really good. For a book with lots of description it actually captured my attention.
As a math major in the long ago, I am fairly proud to have read 30 of these novels. Also, as an American i feel I am at a bit of a disadvantgage looking at a list compiled by an English news outlet.
Your pronunciations are so much better than mine, when I say literature it sounds more like "lid-er-a-ture" with a d instead of the t lol. Enjoyed the video! I've only read 13 of the books so you have me beat, though I did recently buy Things Fall Apart and will be reading it later this year. If I had to recommend one book that isn't on this list it would be Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut, one of the main books that made me fall in love with science fiction. Hope to see more videos like this!
I feel you on some of these - you know what it's about and people talk about it a lot so maybe you'll read it eventually. But, girl! You HAVE to read A Brave New World. Please move it to the top of your list ASAP!! (And then read fahrenheit 451 because you'll want to continue down the dystopian rabbit hole). Also going to advocate for one of my favorite authors, Annie Dillard, pick up her collection of essays The Abundance and even though it's not your usual style, you won't regret it.
I've read 70 of them. I guess that makes me a bit odd. It also helps to be old. I read "Dangerous Liaisons" (Les Liaisons Dangereuses) in French. Do I get an extra point for that? I'm very surprised that "Crime and Punishment" didn't make the list. You really have to read "One Hundred Years of Solitude" in its entirety. I think it's one of the top 5 novels in history.
I've wanted to ever since that class. I really enjoyed García Márquez! I'd love to read the original Spanish, but I don't know if I'm prepared for that yet 😅
17 books! (les liaisons dangereuses, wuthering heights, jane eyre, the scarlett letter, Madame Bovary, the Picture of Dorian Gray, the Call of the Wild, Mrs Dalloway, the Great Gatsby, The Trial, Journey to the end of the night, Brave New World, The Plague, 1984, Malone Dies, Catcher in the Rye, On the Road) I think this list is focusing on literature written in English (which is normal for the guardian I guess), but it was still interesting!
Yeah, I suppose it's normal that any list would be a bit biased toward literature of the same language :) Although it's still reminded me that I need to start reading more French classics!
37 for me. I would add- "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace, "Point Counter Point" by Aldous Huxley, and "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy. Last but not least, I'll my favorite novel not on "The Guardian" list- by Nobel Prizing author Sigrid Undset- Kristin Lavransdatter. Out of the two translations I've read, I recommend the Nunnally translation.
... by the Guardian. Still, French novels get a much better shot than Russian novels (3) or German novels (2) do. Kafka and Tolstoy must have come in by miracle ;-) .
If you are into book lists then you should definitely check out the List Challenges website, although please don’t blame me when you waste many hours ticking books off!
Wuthering Heights is really good, I think you should give it another chance. Madame Bovary is good but a little boring. I am shocked not a single novel on the list is from the Arab world! Totally biased 😅
My score was about the same as yours. But, I think that the list was probably biased towards my (older) generation. Some of the works, for example, "Lord of the Flies," "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Catcher in the Rye" were "hot items" when my generation reached high school. All of them are well worth reading, but might have been replaced by others on the standard reading list in your time at school. But, it is really a good idea to visit this subject occasionally, if only to catch sight of the "bucket list" books. With your level of French I would definitely suggest Flaubert. "Madame Bovary" was great, but, "The Sentimental Education" and "Salambo" were as well. "Salambo" has some extraordinary images. I've just finished "L'Etranger" by Camus, which I had read in English many years ago. but, I loved reading it in French. I'm struggling with "Le Pere Goriot" now. Again, I've read it in English, but, this is my first time in French. Balzac has quite a whit and vocabulary, so, it will probably take me a month to get through it.( I am absolutely lousy at speaking French or understanding it when it is spoken. But, I can read it, and that was worth all the effort.) In English, I would highly suggest Michael Chabon, especially, "The Adventures of Kavelier and Clay," and "The Yiddish Policemen's Union." They will change the way you write forever. His later novel, "Telegraph Avenue" has some of the most beautiful writing I've ever encountered. If I could write like anyone, he is the one I would choose. Great video, thank you.
I second your recommendation for Michael Chabon! Also, bravo for reading in French. For my French reading I've been sticking to Simenon and some best selling "polars" but need to tackle Hugo and Balzac.
27 (would be 29 if you counted each LOTR books) I would argue that was not quite “classics” guardian but hay. What would I add hitchikers guide to the galaxy as it is a modern list, barchester tower by Anthony Trollope is his best work and great expectations as it is the only dickens I liked :)
I have read some,but not many.The Great Gatsby,To Kill a Mockingbird,Lord of the Flies all from school lol Ps,Its LAN ARK,lol its about 10 minutes from me,don't know if the book is about the place though!
Yeah, considering it comes from a British source, it's expected that it would be biased towards literature that is more popular in British / English-speaking culture! Some of the picks seemed quite off-the-wall though 😅
1 out of 100. Hmmm. I've only read The Catcher in the Rye. I thought I would have 3 but when I thought about it, I haven't actually read Alice in Wonderland or Charlotte's Web. I know I'm not as much of a reader as I'd like to be, but I thought I'd get more. If I were to add to the list, I would add High Fidelity (my favourite book), Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and of course The Hobbit. I'd definitely want to throw a lot more modern classics into the list for me.
Only one Jane Austen, no Shakespeare and no John Irving. ... that's so sad ! I've counted : 22 for me ! I'm so ashamed as well but give me some Shakespeare and my score will get higher too! 1984 and brave new world are outstanding (as well as oppressing) , thank you for that excellent video as usual Andrea ! !!
I'm a bit surprised by the inclusion of the BFG instead of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or Matilda which I remember more fondly. And I don't get the acclaim for The Catcher in the Rhye, rarely did I dislike a protagonist as much as that one (or at least one I assume I'm supposed to like). Anyway, what I wanted to say is that if you want to look at top 100 of, well, pretty much anything, there are websites that gather tops from tons of sources and run algorithms to make a consensus list. For books, you should check thegreatestbooks.org/ . On the plus side, averaging lots of lists makes it less inclined to bias (well, at least personal bias, you still get pro-men/western/white bias due to the fact they are more known and read but at least you avoid idiosyncracies that only the author or such or such list are fans of). On the other hand, you might discover more hidden gems browsing through specific lists, the best found are often books (or movies or albums) that a few people love to death more than those everybody like, but to check your general knowledge on a fair basis, check the consensus lists ! If you want to have a go at other mediums : Movies : www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000.htm (movies are actually the most striking example, you could for example have seen 90 out of the top 100 of Empire but almost none of the AFI or some fancy magazine). Tsdpt erases a lot of the pro-American bias, making the top 100 a bit of a specialist thing I guess. Music : www.acclaimedmusic.net/ (pretty much my favorite website ever, the top 200 albums is pretty much all unanimous classics and there's not much in the top 1000 that's not at least an interesting listen. And there are tons of gems hidden everywhere in the rest of the list). If you want to have another try at this exercice, but with albums, I'd be interested to see that. There is also a website for videogames and I found one list for tv shows in a forum !
Great idea for a video, and impressive score! I think I would score about 8, but then the list seemed strongly biased towards English / American authors. For roughly 50 %, I didn't even know the titles. So, I wonder how the top 100 list would look like if only novels written and read in other languages than their mother tongue were counted ... ;-) That said, with your level of French you could definitely go for reading a French novel. My recommendation would be Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier. It's not as long as a Flaubert-novel and easier to read.
I suppose it's normal that any list would be a bit biased toward literature of the same language :) Although I didn't know quite a few of these titles either! Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out :D
It is a 2.5 for me : I have read The Call of the Wild and 1984 and i am reading the Picture of Dorian Gray :) the funny thing is that i have read all these 3 books in english (i am French) and i have read none of the French Books in the list xD
Only managed 31/100 & I was also a literature graduate, tho' along time ago. If you're into 19c lit I would recommend Woman in White - v much about women's powerlessness against whatever abuse their husbands wanted to perpetrate. V recently adapted by the BBC. Would also recommend Jude the Obscure, not a cheerful read but again, a cornerstone of English Victorian fiction. But tut-tut, so many American novels unread 😉
My specialty was focused on British lit, so it's a bit shameful the number of American classics I haven't had the time for 😅 Thanks for the recommendations! Those sound like books I should definitely add to my list 😁
22? That's awesome. I have a grand total of zero. But this list does teach me something. I confine myself to Asian Classics (Six Classical Novels of China, The Tale of Hong Gil Dong etc.), Fantasy and Sci Fi (which should have got a lot more representation on this list). So I got a very low score. I learned that, if you confine yourself to a particular Genre/Comfort Zone, you're gonna miss out on a lot. So you need to experiment more to broaden your horizons. By the way, "I have read The Lord of the Rings, does that count as 3, 4 or 5 books?" No Andrea, it does not ;)
I have a tendency to confine myself to a specific genre too -- I think we all do! But it's great to expand our horizons and try something new once in a while :D I would like to read more Asian classics, because for me that's a genre I haven't explored nearly enough!
I love the way you pronounce litricher. Read Dickens at leisure and enjoy. And u have to read Crime and Punishment, The Death of Ivan Ilyitch, The Idiot, The Gambler AND The Brothers Kamazarov
someone made an obscure list from famous authors and listed the b sides of their work......brave new world, the plague, wise blood are awesome......... if you are a lit major you need to have been reading these........to kill a mockingbird? really..?.. come on.....
In search of lost time.... ahaha , i remember this one.Actually it is not a novel, not at all!!It is several books , and it like an autobiographic roman.It is written by Proust, so basically it is composed of .....very....long...long ....sentences... Like Balsac, but more boring in my opinion (way way more boring)
Renee O'Rourke as far as I know it would sound a bit weird. As for grammar alone, your sentence is correct, of course. But I'm not French - I just consider myself to speak it fairly well. I hope I could help.
Diary of a Nobody? Seriously? It was the WORST thing I have ever read - as the name suggests, it was incredibly boring and just... awful. Maybe I didn’t appreciate the style of writing or something as I was only 13ish, but I would no way put it anywhere near this list!
I loved Diary of a Nobody, it’s one of my favourite books. It made me laugh a lot, so I guess maybe the humour is my style. Comic books can be quite hit and miss there are definitely some books (and films for that matter) that other people have told me were funny but didn’t even make me smile let alone laugh. Another plus is that it is one of the shortest books on the list!
As someone who didn't grow up in an English speaking country I've hardly read any ... I know there are many international novels on this list but it's still over 50% English/American. I've only read 1984, Lord of the rings, Lord of the flies. And only 1984 in school.
I read 22 on the list. Some of them I've read so long I need to re-read. I enjoyed reading the list of books to remember my own feelings about them. For example I read 'As I Lay Dying' and did and illustration in pen and ink for my illustration class. I read Kafka's 'The Trial' but all I can remember is the cheap paperback edition that also included the story of Gregor Samsa (I forgot the title). I would nominate 'Bleak House' by Dickens. I think it is a great book and Esther Summerson is a great character. I think people misunderstand her as a timid milksop. That is how she portrays herself in her account of her story. When you read how she treats Mr. Guppy you know that she understands her own value, but she is a Victorian woman and portrays herself as one.
Scoop, Journey to the end of the night, Lucky Jim and American pastoral are fantastic.
Girl, I totally feel you on the Shakespeare plays. I was an English major and had to read them throughout high school too haha. Also, you should definitely read Lord of the Flies. It's really good. For a book with lots of description it actually captured my attention.
As a math major in the long ago, I am fairly proud to have read 30 of these novels. Also, as an American i feel I am at a bit of a disadvantgage looking at a list compiled by an English news outlet.
Your pronunciations are so much better than mine, when I say literature it sounds more like "lid-er-a-ture" with a d instead of the t lol.
Enjoyed the video! I've only read 13 of the books so you have me beat, though I did recently buy Things Fall Apart and will be reading it later this year.
If I had to recommend one book that isn't on this list it would be Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut, one of the main books that made me fall in love with science fiction.
Hope to see more videos like this!
Excellent Job Andrea, Yes it is 22 what i counted also, Its still a Great Number of Books, Well done! 👍👍💯🙋
Andrea I'd highly recommend Anna Karenina!! & The Scarlet Letter is great too. :)
Oh and I adore The Picture of Dorian Gray; it's my favourite book of all time.
And please read Jude the Obscure, it's absolutely amazing!! I'll stop commenting now haha.
Those are all three definitely on my reading list!! :)
Lucy InTheSky glad to see someone recommanding Anna Karenina - probably one of the best novels ever written and my favourite for # 1.
I feel you on some of these - you know what it's about and people talk about it a lot so maybe you'll read it eventually. But, girl! You HAVE to read A Brave New World. Please move it to the top of your list ASAP!! (And then read fahrenheit 451 because you'll want to continue down the dystopian rabbit hole). Also going to advocate for one of my favorite authors, Annie Dillard, pick up her collection of essays The Abundance and even though it's not your usual style, you won't regret it.
Thanks for the recommendations! I'm not gonna lie, I love a good dystopian rabbit hole 😆
I've read 70 of them. I guess that makes me a bit odd. It also helps to be old. I read "Dangerous Liaisons" (Les Liaisons Dangereuses) in French. Do I get an extra point for that? I'm very surprised that "Crime and Punishment" didn't make the list. You really have to read "One Hundred Years of Solitude" in its entirety. I think it's one of the top 5 novels in history.
I've wanted to ever since that class. I really enjoyed García Márquez! I'd love to read the original Spanish, but I don't know if I'm prepared for that yet 😅
You should spend a year reading these books. It’s a shame you studied literature but haven’t read all these basic books. You’ll enjoy it!
17 books! (les liaisons dangereuses, wuthering heights, jane eyre, the scarlett letter, Madame Bovary, the Picture of Dorian Gray, the Call of the Wild, Mrs Dalloway, the Great Gatsby, The Trial, Journey to the end of the night, Brave New World, The Plague, 1984, Malone Dies, Catcher in the Rye, On the Road)
I think this list is focusing on literature written in English (which is normal for the guardian I guess), but it was still interesting!
Yeah, I suppose it's normal that any list would be a bit biased toward literature of the same language :) Although it's still reminded me that I need to start reading more French classics!
I’m surprised Pride and Prejudice isn’t on that list.
That shocked me too! I'm happy to see appreciation for Emma, but P&P belongs there too
37 for me. I would add- "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace, "Point Counter Point" by Aldous Huxley, and "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy.
Last but not least, I'll my favorite novel not on "The Guardian" list- by Nobel Prizing author Sigrid Undset- Kristin Lavransdatter. Out of the two translations I've read, I recommend the Nunnally translation.
I've only read 5 of those books 🙈
I need to step up my literature reading game!
No book by Zola, Hugo or Jules Verne ? strange list...
... by the Guardian. Still, French novels get a much better shot than Russian novels (3) or German novels (2) do. Kafka and Tolstoy must have come in by miracle ;-) .
If you are into book lists then you should definitely check out the List Challenges website, although please don’t blame me when you waste many hours ticking books off!
Wuthering Heights is really good, I think you should give it another chance. Madame Bovary is good but a little boring. I am shocked not a single novel on the list is from the Arab world! Totally biased 😅
My score was about the same as yours. But, I think that the list was probably biased towards my (older) generation. Some of the works, for example, "Lord of the Flies," "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Catcher in the Rye" were "hot items" when my generation reached high school. All of them are well worth reading, but might have been replaced by others on the standard reading list in your time at school. But, it is really a good idea to visit this subject occasionally, if only to catch sight of the "bucket list" books.
With your level of French I would definitely suggest Flaubert. "Madame Bovary" was great, but, "The Sentimental Education" and "Salambo" were as well. "Salambo" has some extraordinary images.
I've just finished "L'Etranger" by Camus, which I had read in English many years ago. but, I loved reading it in French. I'm struggling with "Le Pere Goriot" now. Again, I've read it in English, but, this is my first time in French. Balzac has quite a whit and vocabulary, so, it will probably take me a month to get through it.( I am absolutely lousy at speaking French or understanding it when it is spoken. But, I can read it, and that was worth all the effort.)
In English, I would highly suggest Michael Chabon, especially, "The Adventures of Kavelier and Clay," and "The Yiddish Policemen's Union." They will change the way you write forever. His later novel, "Telegraph Avenue" has some of the most beautiful writing I've ever encountered. If I could write like anyone, he is the one I would choose.
Great video, thank you.
I second your recommendation for Michael Chabon! Also, bravo for reading in French. For my French reading I've been sticking to Simenon and some best selling "polars" but need to tackle Hugo and Balzac.
27 (would be 29 if you counted each LOTR books) I would argue that was not quite “classics” guardian but hay. What would I add hitchikers guide to the galaxy as it is a modern list, barchester tower by Anthony Trollope is his best work and great expectations as it is the only dickens I liked :)
I'm surprised by how many I've never heard of let alone read and I worked for 14 years as a page in a library district.
I have read some,but not many.The Great Gatsby,To Kill a Mockingbird,Lord of the Flies all from school lol Ps,Its LAN ARK,lol its about 10 minutes from me,don't know if the book is about the place though!
I have Les liaisons dangereuses, if you want 😉 And don't worry, the majority of those books, I don't even know them... 😂
It's heavily biased to British and American novels. Of course, we think our literature is the greatest ;-) BTW, I love Les Liaisons dangereuses!
Yeah, considering it comes from a British source, it's expected that it would be biased towards literature that is more popular in British / English-speaking culture! Some of the picks seemed quite off-the-wall though 😅
I've read 28...I need to get busy on the rest!
1 out of 100. Hmmm. I've only read The Catcher in the Rye. I thought I would have 3 but when I thought about it, I haven't actually read Alice in Wonderland or Charlotte's Web. I know I'm not as much of a reader as I'd like to be, but I thought I'd get more.
If I were to add to the list, I would add High Fidelity (my favourite book), Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and of course The Hobbit. I'd definitely want to throw a lot more modern classics into the list for me.
I really need to read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!
Andrea Heckler I absolutely love it. Just shy of being my favourite. I really hope you do.
Only one Jane Austen, no Shakespeare and no John Irving. ... that's so sad ! I've counted : 22 for me ! I'm so ashamed as well but give me some Shakespeare and my score will get higher too! 1984 and brave new world are outstanding (as well as oppressing) , thank you for that excellent video as usual Andrea ! !!
1984 has been on my list for a while, but I'm never quite sure I want to embark on that journey 😅 I know it would be worth it though!
I'm a bit surprised by the inclusion of the BFG instead of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or Matilda which I remember more fondly. And I don't get the acclaim for The Catcher in the Rhye, rarely did I dislike a protagonist as much as that one (or at least one I assume I'm supposed to like).
Anyway, what I wanted to say is that if you want to look at top 100 of, well, pretty much anything, there are websites that gather tops from tons of sources and run algorithms to make a consensus list.
For books, you should check thegreatestbooks.org/ . On the plus side, averaging lots of lists makes it less inclined to bias (well, at least personal bias, you still get pro-men/western/white bias due to the fact they are more known and read but at least you avoid idiosyncracies that only the author or such or such list are fans of). On the other hand, you might discover more hidden gems browsing through specific lists, the best found are often books (or movies or albums) that a few people love to death more than those everybody like, but to check your general knowledge on a fair basis, check the consensus lists !
If you want to have a go at other mediums :
Movies : www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000.htm (movies are actually the most striking example, you could for example have seen 90 out of the top 100 of Empire but almost none of the AFI or some fancy magazine). Tsdpt erases a lot of the pro-American bias, making the top 100 a bit of a specialist thing I guess.
Music : www.acclaimedmusic.net/ (pretty much my favorite website ever, the top 200 albums is pretty much all unanimous classics and there's not much in the top 1000 that's not at least an interesting listen. And there are tons of gems hidden everywhere in the rest of the list). If you want to have another try at this exercice, but with albums, I'd be interested to see that.
There is also a website for videogames and I found one list for tv shows in a forum !
Great idea for a video, and impressive score! I think I would score about 8, but then the list seemed strongly biased towards English / American authors. For roughly 50 %, I didn't even know the titles.
So, I wonder how the top 100 list would look like if only novels written and read in other languages than their mother tongue were counted ... ;-)
That said, with your level of French you could definitely go for reading a French novel. My recommendation would be Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier. It's not as long as a Flaubert-novel and easier to read.
I suppose it's normal that any list would be a bit biased toward literature of the same language :) Although I didn't know quite a few of these titles either! Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out :D
you know what you need? a second life ;) to read them all lol like video games :D
Yes! I could use a third life for video games too 😜
It is a 2.5 for me : I have read The Call of the Wild and 1984 and i am reading the Picture of Dorian Gray :) the funny thing is that i have read all these 3 books in english (i am French) and i have read none of the French Books in the list xD
😂😂
I feel so uncultured rn
Haha, there are just too many books to read them all 😅 But it's a good reminder to bulk up our reading lists!
When you will do an other French / English video ? 😅
I don't have immediate plans for the next one, but probably in a month or two! :)
Only managed 31/100 & I was also a literature graduate, tho' along time ago. If you're into 19c lit I would recommend Woman in White - v much about women's powerlessness against whatever abuse their husbands wanted to perpetrate. V recently adapted by the BBC. Would also recommend Jude the Obscure, not a cheerful read but again, a cornerstone of English Victorian fiction. But tut-tut, so many American novels unread 😉
My specialty was focused on British lit, so it's a bit shameful the number of American classics I haven't had the time for 😅 Thanks for the recommendations! Those sound like books I should definitely add to my list 😁
Spare us!
I've read 10 of these I think. The list I like is the 2003 BBC The Big Read list but I feel like none of these kind of lists are ever that good.
These lists can't ever be perfect, because there are just too many incredible novels in the world! Compilations like this are still fun though 😁
I've read only 2 books of these (Brave New World and The Cather in the Rye)... kinda sad actually but there are just too many books out there!
Agreed! It's just imposible to read them all! 😅
A more recent one: www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/100-greatest-novels-time/ (go check it for fun!) :D
Thanks! :D
22? That's awesome. I have a grand total of zero. But this list does teach me something.
I confine myself to Asian Classics (Six Classical Novels of China, The Tale of Hong Gil Dong etc.), Fantasy and Sci Fi (which should have got a lot more representation on this list). So I got a very low score.
I learned that, if you confine yourself to a particular Genre/Comfort Zone, you're gonna miss out on a lot. So you need to experiment more to broaden your horizons.
By the way, "I have read The Lord of the Rings, does that count as 3, 4 or 5 books?" No Andrea, it does not ;)
I have a tendency to confine myself to a specific genre too -- I think we all do! But it's great to expand our horizons and try something new once in a while :D I would like to read more Asian classics, because for me that's a genre I haven't explored nearly enough!
Lots of interesting books but i haven't read most of them sadly. I must admit that I am more of a writer than a reader. :')
There's just never enough time in the day 😁
I love the way you pronounce litricher. Read Dickens at leisure and enjoy. And u have to read Crime and Punishment, The Death of Ivan Ilyitch, The Idiot, The Gambler AND The Brothers Kamazarov
Tellement inspirant et interessant de savoir tout ce que tu as lu. Merci pour la vidéo.
Write the list please 😀
So nothing by Dan Brown on the list?
This list is from 2003, and I don't think Dan Brown had published very much or garnered a ton of attention just yet :)
someone made an obscure list from famous authors and listed the b sides of their work......brave new world, the plague, wise blood are awesome......... if you are a lit major you need to have been reading these........to kill a mockingbird? really..?.. come on.....
In search of lost time.... ahaha , i remember this one.Actually it is not a novel, not at all!!It is several books , and it like an autobiographic roman.It is written by Proust, so basically it is composed of .....very....long...long ....sentences... Like Balsac, but more boring in my opinion (way way more boring)
swans way is the first I think.....
I've read 31.
Are you from Vat19?
J'ai une question pour les françaises. Est-ce qu'on peut dire "Je suis UNE française" ou non?
Renee O'Rourke as far as I know it would sound a bit weird. As for grammar alone, your sentence is correct, of course. But I'm not French - I just consider myself to speak it fairly well. I hope I could help.
Diary of a Nobody? Seriously? It was the WORST thing I have ever read - as the name suggests, it was incredibly boring and just... awful. Maybe I didn’t appreciate the style of writing or something as I was only 13ish, but I would no way put it anywhere near this list!
Maybe I will keep that one off my reading list for the time being then! 😂
I loved Diary of a Nobody, it’s one of my favourite books. It made me laugh a lot, so I guess maybe the humour is my style. Comic books can be quite hit and miss there are definitely some books (and films for that matter) that other people have told me were funny but didn’t even make me smile let alone laugh. Another plus is that it is one of the shortest books on the list!
Rambling Anna same with music / composers / musicians for that matter 😄
Ella Speed Indeed! 😀
Rambling Anna Could be! As I said, I was pretty young when I read it so the humour probably went straight over my head 😂