Guardian Newspaper 1000 Novels discussion

Categories open for nomination for January 2023 are:

Comedy and War and Travel

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:

Comedy List

War and Travel List

so let's have those suggestions...

Nominations
Comedy: Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes.
War & Travel: The Cruel Sea, Nicolas Monsarrat

I nominate for

Comedy: Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie

War & Travel: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

I nominate

Comedy: Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

War & Travel: Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald

War and Travel: All Quiet on the Western Front

War and Travel : Count Belisarius by Robert Graves

Comedy : Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans

For Comedy, I nominate:

Mr Norris Changes Trains

(known to us Yanks as the first half of The Berlin Stories)

For War and Travel, I second Count Belisaurius

PS- whiskey galore? Yes, please

Christopher wrote: "PS- whiskey galore? Yes, please

"

I appreciate your enthusiasm!

Thanks for those - Polls will go up later today...

so going forward to Polls we have:

Comedy:
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes (1984) 190 pages
Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie (1947) 304 pages
Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield (1930) 201 pages
Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans (1958) 432 pages
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood (1935) 230 pages

War & Travel:
The Cruel Sea by Nicolas Monsarrat (1951) 520 pages
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1928) 296 pages
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (2001) 415 pages
Count Belisarius by Robert Graves (1938) 564 pages

Polls are up!

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