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Top 10 novels of all time

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Whitewavemark2 Sat 16-May-26 08:25:37

According to guardian poll

1. Middlemarch - George Eliot

2.Beloved - Toni Morrison

3. Ulysses - James Joyce

4. To the Lighthouse -Virginia Wolf

5. In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust

6. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

7. War and Peace - LeonTolstoy

8. Jane Eye - Charlotte Brontë

9. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

10 Madame Bovary - Gustavia Flaubert

Well, I do think that the list is a bit obvious, lacking imagination. But what do I know? I have read 5 of them - mostly in my yoof. Whilst those I have read I enjoyed, they are not the ones that stick in my mind nor have had a real effect on me.

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BlueBelle Thu 01-Oct-26 06:49:50

Ww2 I absolutely adored A thousand splendid suns’ and *The Kite Runner, Bee keeper from Kabul, Angelas Ashes but classics no, only read one off that list which was Pride and Prejudice ( at school not by choice) , and hated every minute of it, although I did get my English lit o level I don’t enjoy Shakespeare at all, but I’m well read on life’s up and downs, literature around social geography and how the other half live.
A classic girl I m not, now kill me

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