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Top 10 novels of all time

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TheWeirdoAgain60 Sat 16-May-26 08:47:57

''yoof''!!! I LOVE that word!

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Chocolatelovinggran Sat 16-May-26 08:41:14

Hmm, interesting WWM. I revisited Middlemarch a few years ago, having loved it in my youth. I found it very hard going.
I have always assumed that it is a given that James Joyce's Ulysses is in the shelf of every prominent academic, but has been read by very few of them.

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Moth62 Sat 16-May-26 08:39:20

I’ve tried several times to read War and Peace but failed dismally each time, so the two volumes sit in pristine condition on my bookshelves! My friend did Ulysses at college and neither of us could make head nor tail if it. I wonder if there’s maybe a bit of Emperor’s New Clothes about this list. But what do I know? Maybe it’s just me.

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Whitewavemark2 Sat 16-May-26 08:27:48

Just to add that the poll was carried out amongst prominent critics, academics and authors.

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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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