Guardian Newspaper 1000 Novels discussion

Categories open for nomination for August 2024 are:

State of the Nation 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:

State of the Nation List

Family & Self List

so let's have those suggestions...

I nominate:

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster for State of the Nation

The Immoralist by André Gide for Family & Self

I nominate

SotN : The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

F&S: Good Behaviour by Molly Keane

State of the Nation: Silas Marner by George Eliot

Family & Self: The Outsider by Albert Camus

Family & Self - Picture of Dorian Gray

State of the Nation - Absolute Beginners

Thanks for those :o)
apologies for my recent inattention to moderator duties, but I have been having a holiday break over the last few days
I will put polls up tomorrow, with just a short timescale so as to get a choice without losing too much of August!

Mela - we have already read Silas Marner (last December!)

so I've added a State of the Nation nominee, namely Personality by Andrew O'Hagan

so we have:

State of the Nation:
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (1924) 376 pages
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1906) 335 pages
Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes (1959) 203 pages
Personality by Andrew O'Hagan (2003) 311 pages

Family & Self:
The Outsider by Albert Camus (1942) 119 pages
The Immoralist by Andre Gide (1902) 123 pages
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane (1981) 291 pages
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890) 272 pages

Polls are up - get voting quick!

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

Darren wrote: "Mela - we have already read Silas Marner (last December!)

I apologize. I didn't mark it in my notes. Too many lists to-read ;-)