Guardian Newspaper 1000 Novels discussion

Categories open for nomination for December 2024 are:

Family and Self and Comedy

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:

Family and Self List

Comedy List

so let's have those suggestions...

Family and Self - The Outsider by Albert Camus

Comedy - A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

Comedy: The Drivers Seat - Muriel Spark The Driver's Seat

Family & Self - Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell Mary Barton

Family and Self: Roxana by Daniel Defoe

Comedy: Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Thanks for those :o)
I have added one of my own in each category, so these will go forward to Polls:
Family and Self:
The Sound of My Voice by Ron Butlin
The Outsider by Albert Camus
Roxana by Daniel Defoe
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

Comedy:
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
No Bed for Bacon by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon

Polls are up!
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...

P.S. I realise I keep leaving this rather late in the month, so I hereby resolve:

To put up future nomination threads on/around 15th each month...

Please feel free to moan at me if I'm late again...

I think you're doing a fabulous job, Darren. Never beat yourself up if you're a few days late to do anything. It's all done as a hobby, and I for one appreciate you getting these up at all. So, thanks for all your good work.

tie between Outsider and Mary Barton - I'm thinking we just read both, since both Outsider and Driver's Seat are quite short
i.e. 3 books for December - think of it as a Christmas Pressie!
;o)