Guardian Newspaper 1000 Novels discussion

Categories open for nomination for June 2024 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 List

so let's have those suggestions...

Not seeing a lot of hilarity in the "comedy" list, but I will nominate

Jacques the Fatalist,

because I've already read most of it, and DO want to finish (if it is written up above..)

For Travel, I pick

Monkey: The Journey to the West

because all my other book buddies won't read an abridgement, but I will, and I have the e-book, and so there.

I've read that Waley translation/adaptation/abridgement of Monkey and thought it was excellent!
plus the picture for this edition is my actual copy, photo'd by my own fair hand:

:oD

I nominate for

Comedy: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

War & Travel: She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard

I nominate:

Comedy: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

I can't decide which one to nominate this time in the War & Travel category, so I am not going to do it this time around.

in order to square things up, I'll just nominate a

War & Travel: Silver Stallion: A Novel of Korea by Ahn Junghyo

Darren wrote: "in order to square things up, I'll just nominate a War & Travel...."

👍

I’d love to read Death and the Penguin, but there’s a copy of Lanchester’s Debt to Pleasure on the book swap shelf at work so maybe I should start there.

I nominate

Comedy: A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark

War/Travel: The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton

thanks everybody :o)

to confirm the nominations for June:

Comedy:
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot (1796) 261 pages
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961) 453 pages
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (1889) 185 pages
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester (1996) 272 pages
A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark (1988) 189 pages

War & Travel:
Monkey: The Journey to the West by Wu Ch'eng-en (1592) 306 pages
She: A History of Adventure by H Rider Haggard (1887) 317 pages
Silver Stallion: A Novel of Korea by Junghyo Ahn (1990) 280 pages
The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton (1947) 242 pages

and Polls Are Up!
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...