Guardian Newspaper 1000 Novels discussion

Categories open for nomination for October 2024 are:

War & Travel and Crime

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:

War & Travel List

Crime List

so let's have those suggestions...

I nominate:

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

for Crime: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

I nominate:

for War & Travel: Scaramouche

for Crime: To Kill a Mockingbird

I would like to put Polls up tonight

so any more nominations need to come in asap...

War & Travel : An Ice-cream War by William Boyd
Crime: The Blue Room by Georges Simenon

I have added a couple, so we have:

War & Travel:
She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard (1887) 317 pages
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini (1921) 359 pages
An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd (1982) 408 pages
Silver Stallion: A Novel of Korea by Junghyo Ahn (1990) 280 pages

Crime:
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (1953) 379 pages
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960) 323 pages
The Blue Room by Georges Simenon (1964) 139 pages
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King (1992) 388 pages

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