The 40 Best Books of the Century

The Times recently created a list of books which they claim are the 40 best novels from the past century. I discuss my thoughts and feelings about these titles. Click ‘Show More’ for info & links.

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The Times 40 Best Books of the Century: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/be...

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Books discussed & purchase links:

The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
https://tidd.ly/3CbPa3S

The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
https://tidd.ly/3QuSbjQ

Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
https://tidd.ly/3w6WYjr

Lady Chatterley's Lover – DH Lawrence
https://tidd.ly/3AhcIjK

Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
https://tidd.ly/3zZvldd

The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
https://tidd.ly/3CaIO4C

Never Mind – Edward St Aubyn
https://tidd.ly/3QL0YOj

Half a Yellow Sun – Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
https://tidd.ly/3bqcIqv

The Death of the Heart – Elizabeth Bowen
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Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout
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The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
https://tidd.ly/3A1Du0C

The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
https://tidd.ly/3AoFz8k

The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
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Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
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The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
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The Color Purple – Alice Walker
https://tidd.ly/3Qvp93y

Atonement – Ian McEwan
https://tidd.ly/3w7TvAZ

A House for Mr Biswas – VS Naipaul
https://tidd.ly/3AppeQP

The Blue Flower – Penelope Fitzgerald
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Lord of the Flies – William Golding
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Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
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Disgrace – JM Coetzee
https://tidd.ly/3PrbgSP

The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
https://tidd.ly/38Zb7Xz

A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
https://tidd.ly/357SJcC

The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
https://tidd.ly/3MxAtKy

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
https://tidd.ly/3dnGxIU

Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
https://tidd.ly/3SSgOsi

A Passage to India – EM Forster
https://tidd.ly/3pmwSFf

The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
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Giovanni's Room – James Baldwin
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Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
https://tidd.ly/3reHXXm

Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
https://tidd.ly/3QK3dBA

Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
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To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
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Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
https://tidd.ly/3Qrmrwc

Beloved – Toni Morrison
https://tidd.ly/3bSi4LH

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
https://tidd.ly/3Qujafl

Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
https://tidd.ly/3polHfc

Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
https://tidd.ly/3k7aIDt

The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
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My reviews of some of these books:

Lady Chatterley's Lover – DH Lawrence
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/...

Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2020/...

Lord of the Flies – William Golding
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2014/...

The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2019/...

Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2016/...

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