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Best......??

So what is the best novel you have a red or even among the best?

Posted - July 3, 2020
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    Five of my favourite classics (from the first half of the 20th century or earlier):

    Anna Karenina - Lev Tolstoy
    Middlemarch - George Eliot
    Absalom! Absalom! - William Faulkner
    Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
    Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

    Five of my favourite modern novels (second half of 20th century or later):

    Illywhacker - Peter Carey
    The Famished Road - Ben Okri
    The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
    Border Crossing - Pat Barker
    The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

    This post was edited by Reverend Muhammadovsky at July 5, 2020 7:33 AM MDT
      July 4, 2020 12:11 PM MDT
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    Oh . . . forgot to mention "Wolf Hall" which is what I'm reading now.
      July 5, 2020 12:07 PM MDT
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