Guardian Newspaper 1000 Novels discussion

Categories open for nomination for July 2024 are:

Crime and Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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:

Crime List

Sci-Fi & Fantasy List

so let's have those suggestions...

No Crime from me.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy - The Outsider by Camus

I'm going to have a go at nominating this month (even though I'm behind on my reading)

Crime:
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
(the short, so-called "easy" Pynchon)


Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Dr Jeckyll & Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
(because I've never read it and probably should)

Crime: Ratking by Michael Dibdin

No Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Crime: Asphalt jungle
Sci-Fi and fantasy: the trial (I’m not a sci-fi reader normally but there are some cool Kafka tribute pieces on Radio 4 at the moment)

Mela - The Ousider isn't in the Sci-Fi & Fantasy category (it's under Family & Self)
- would you like to nominate a different SFF title...?

Oops. Sorry.

I nominate The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.

Thanks Mela no problem :o)

I have added Big Blowdown and Justified Sinner, so we have:

Crime:
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (1966) 152 pages
Ratking by Michael Dibdin (1988) 266 pages
The Asphalt Jungle by W.R. Burnett (1949) 230 pages
The Big Blowdown by George Pelecanos (1996) 313 pages

Sci-Fi & Fantasy:
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) 139 pages
The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925) 255 pages
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg (1824) 272 pages
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (1898) 192 pages

Polls Are Up!

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