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Norwegian Book Clubs in Oslo (2002) In 2002, the editors of The Norwegian Book Clubs asked 100 authors to nominate ten books that, in their opinion, are the ten best and most central works in world literature. This list was reprinted in The Guardian in 2002. Here's the list. © signifies original publication still copyrighted in the U.S. Melvyn Bragg's Books that Changed the World These twelve books are discussed in Melvyn Bragg's Twelve Books that Changed the World and an article in The Times.
Untitled. Top 100 Best Mysteries of All Time (Mystery Writers of America) Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books. More than 5,000 of you nominated.
More than 60,000 of you voted. And now the results are in. The winners of NPR's Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy survey are an intriguing mix of classic and contemporary titles. Over on NPR's pop culture blog, Monkey See, you can find one fan's thoughts on how the list shaped up, get our experts' take, and have the chance to share your own. The 50 Coolest Books Ever - Entertainment.
Most Anticipated: The Great 2012 Book Preview. 2012 is shaping up to be another exciting year for readers.
While last year boasted long-awaited novels from David Foster Wallace, Haruki Murakami, and Jeffrey Eugenides, readers this year can look forward to new Toni Morrison, Richard Ford, Peter Carey, Lionel Shriver, and, of course, newly translated Roberto Bolaño, as well as, in the hazy distance of this coming fall and beyond, new Michael Chabon, Hilary Mantel, and John Banville. We also have a number of favorites stepping outside of fiction. Marilynn Robinson and Jonathan Franzen have new essay collections on the way.
A pair of plays are on tap from Denis Johnson. A new W.G. The list that follows isn’t exhaustive – no book preview could be – but, at 8,400 words strong and encompassing 81 titles, this is the only 2012 book preview you will ever need. January or Already Out: The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus: No venom seems more befitting an author than words, words, words. At Last and The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. March: Books of the Year 2011 - Magazine. The Atlantic’s literary editor picks the five best of the crop. The Hare With Amber Eyes Edmund de Waal FSG This rueful family memoir is also a vividly episodic history of 19th- and 20th-century Europe, and a plangent consideration of the pleasures and fleetingness of aesthetic and familial happiness.
Letters to Monica Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite Faber and Faber Even as this book chronicles an almost passionless and far from conventionally happy relationship, it yields moments of exquisite tenderness and acuity, while obliquely showing the civilizing effect that even the most trying woman can exert on even the most impossible man. The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan Richard Nickel and Aaron Siskind, with John Vinci and Ward Miller Richard Nickel Committee This publishing feat illuminates some of the most beautiful and influential art that America has produced.
Saints and Sinners: Stories Edna O’Brien Back Bay Emily, Alone Stewart O’Nan Viking. 50 Most Influential Books of the Last 50 (or so) Years. In compiling the books on this list, the editors at SuperScholar have tried to provide a window into the culture of the last 50 years.
Ideally, if you read every book on this list, you will know how we got to where we are today. Not all the books on this list are “great.” The criterion for inclusion was not greatness but INFLUENCE. Invitation to World Literature. Greek, by Euripides, first performed in 405 BCE The passionate loves and longings, hopes and fears of every culture live on forever in their stories.
Here is your invitation to literature from around the world and across time. The New Canon. A Halloween reading list. Halloween is my favourite holiday, though I'm not quite sure why.
It may be some blood-deep ethnic link to the ancient Celtic festival from whence it came; it may be the fact that I'm crazy-stupid for slasher movies and monkey nuts. Either way, Halloween puts the frights on Christmas, terrorises Easter and sends Valentine's Day bawling for its mommy. And one of the best ways to spend 31 October is by curling up with a creepy book, in a room lit by candles, with stiff drink and loaded revolver close at hand. Just in case. However, being the très cool, alternative trendies that we are, let's not settle for any old horror novel. Instead, I've put together an alternative Halloween reading list in preparation for next Monday: novels that are eerie, horrifying or disturbing in unusual and different ways. Manual by Daren KingFetishism, psychic dislocation, unhealthy sexual obsession – Manual isn't an easy book to warm to, but it will linger in the mind afterwards. The Best English-Language Fiction of the Twentieth Century - Alternative Rankings. C. 150-Point Scale.