Guardian Newspaper 1000 Novels discussion

Categories open for nomination for December 2022 are:

Love and Family and Self

to help with choosing nominations, I have updated the threads containing the full list of books in each of these categories, showing which books have already been read - hopefully these are useful:

Love List

Family and Self List

so let's have those suggestions...

I nominate

Love: Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Family and Self: East of Eden by John Steinbeck

I nominate:
Love: Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
Family and Self: Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel

I nominate:

Love: The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Family and Self: The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins

F&S - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Love - The Remains of the Day.

Love: Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain-Fournier

F/S: Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro

Thanks for those everybody :o)
Polls will go up later today...

so we have:

Love :
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (1928) 376 pages
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis (1899) 176 pages
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (1995) 216 pages
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989) 258 pages
Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain-Fournier (1913) 206 pages

Family and Self :
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952) 601 pages
Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel (1926) 233 pages
The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins (1954) 272 pages
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (1962) 325 pages
Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro (1977) 206 pages

Polls are up!

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...