OK, it's time for the last category in the Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Should Must Read, as I chase the 100 books (quite why I am not sure. It would only be a tenth of the books on the actual list, which is pretty shoddy anyway).
So, State of the Nation it is...
Read
Albert Camus - The Plague
Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge
Alan Paton - Cry, The Beloved Country
Zadie Smith - White Teeth
Theodore Fontane - Effi Briest
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting
Books I Am Supposed To Have Read
George Eliot - Middlemarch
Johnathan Frantzen - The Corrections
Barry Hines - A Kestrel For A Knave
Still on Shelves
Alasdair Gray - Lanark
Of these books, I'm picking The Plague and Trainspotting for my list. And I now have a grand total of 84. It doesn't really seem so grand does it, for someone with a degree in Language and Literature.
Conclusions to follow in due course
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2 comments:
Well, it's better than me! I only managed 40....
At least I didn't do an English degree though, eh.
Enjoying the blog as always - keep up the good work.
Bx
Well, indeed although I should stress that it was mostly Language that I studied. If there has been some Old and Middle English poems in there, I would have stormed it!
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