Guardian Newspaper 1000 Novels discussion

apologies for delay in getting the nominations started - we'll have to accelerate the process a bit!

Categories open for nomination for February 2024 are:

Family & Self and Love

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:

Family & Self List

Love List

so let's have those suggestions...

Family & Self List - The Outsider by Albert Camus

Love List - The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier

Family & Self - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kessey

Love: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Family & Self: The History of Mr. Polly by H.G. Wells

Love: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos

Family & Self: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

Love: The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

Gosh, such good nominations already! I will not add to them...

I have read all of the F&S nomos, so will add:
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane (first published in 1981, although written significantly earlier) 245 pages


I will put up the Polls later today...

Thankyou to everybody for those :o)

to summarise:

Family & Self:
The Outsider by Albert Camus (1942) 119 pages
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (1962) 325 pages
The History of Mr. Polly by HG Wells (1910) 227 pages
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (1940) 222 pages
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane (1981) 245 pages

Love:
The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier (1949) 352 pages
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989) 258 pages
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1965) 165 pages
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson (1987) 160 pages

and THE POLLS ARE UP!

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