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Thursday 6 October 2011

Modern Classics

Suggestions via Twitter users on modern classics that you might have read, but really should if you haven't. (Apologies to those I haven't credited.) All suggestions are appreciated - add yours in comments. 

  • To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee via @Philipharv inter alia

  • Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  • A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry via @Mr__Gus

  • also Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry via @UKPizzaLover

  • A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

  • The Impressionist - Hari Kunzru

  • Glass Room - Simon Mawr via @sophieraworth

  • The Time-Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger via @craftilicious

  • Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez via @superjonnyonion

  • Saturday - Ian McEwan - via @ianfflood

  • French Lieutenants Woman - John Fowles via @Carole_Benton

  • Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman via @wordycat

  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society - Mary Ann Shaffer via @HNolan10
I am going to add: 

We Need to talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel 


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  1. midnight's children - salman rushdie @huggyk

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  2. Germinal - Zola @elizaboophotos

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  3. The Crow Road - Iain Banks (no M) @throdd

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  4. The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck

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  5. The Life of Pi
    A Thousand Splendid Suns

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  6. Anything by the great David Nobbs. His two most recent.... Obstacles to Young Love and It Had to be You.

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  7. I'd argue with some of the stuff so far. John Fowles, for instance. I thought it was a deeply unpleasant, misogynistic, self-satisfied book. Others decent reads but hardly great literature.

    My suggestions: Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks and AS Byatt's Possession and/or The Children's Story.

    I'd back Life of Pi and Saturday. I would the Steinbeck and Zola if they were modern literature as well, but they ain't.

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  9. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Unsure if 1938 counts as a modern classic but a classic it is.

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