Guardian Newspaper 1000 Novels discussion

Categories open for nomination for May 2024 are:

Love and Family & 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 & Self List

so let's have those suggestions...

Love List: The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier

Family & Self List: The Outsider by Albert Camus

Love: Tender Is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald

F&S: Good Behaviour by Molly Keane

Love: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

F&S: Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

Love: Lorna Doone by RD Blackmore

Family and Self: The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Love: The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette

Family & Self: La pere Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Thanks everbody!
Polls going up in few mins...

so to summarise, we have:

Love:
Lorna Doone by RD Blackmore (1869) 800 pages
The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier (1949) 352 pages
Tender Is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald (1934) 430 pages
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1961) 355 pages
The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette (1678) 288 pages

Family and Self:
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (1993) 337 pages
The Outsider by Albert Camus (1942) 119 pages
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane (1981) 291 pages
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (1988) 462 pages
Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac (1835) 384 pages

and the Polls are up!

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