Guardian Newspaper 1000 Novels discussion

Categories open for nomination for August 2023 are:

Comedy and War & 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 & Travel

so let's have those suggestions...

Comedy: Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

War and Travel: A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne

Comedy: The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

War and Travel: Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford

comedy: Death and the Penguin

war & travel : Prisoner of Zenda

Comedy - The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
War and Travel - Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald

Comedy: Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

War: The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell

Comedy: DECLINE AND FALL: BY EVELYN WAUGH by Evelyn Waugh

War & Travel: SHE BY H. RIDER HAGGARD by H. Rider Haggard

ok thanks for those
polls will go up asap...

These are all good selections.

to summarise:

Comedy:
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (1842) 464 pages
Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray (1844) 384 pages
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov (1996) 228 pages
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington (1974) 199 pages
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (1957) 184 pages
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh (1928) 300 pages

War and Travel:
A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne (1768) 170 pages
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford (1928) 836 pages
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope (1894) 140 pages
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (2001) 415 pages
The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell (1973) 344 pages
She: A History of Adventure by H Rider Haggard (1887) 317 pages

and Polls are up!
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...

Not as many voting in this month's polls and ties in both, at the moment