Just came across this list of 1000 novels everyone must read compiled by The Guardian. My score is 54 in all and still counting.
It incorporates books from all genres — comedy, crime, love, family and self, science fiction, fantasy, war, travel and State of the nation. I scored most on fantasy and family and self.
How many have you read ? Check it out. Pretty interesting :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction
couldn’t go through the bloody list..too damn huge…and their classification is too huge..i have read ‘Dead Souls’…i didn’t knew it was a “comedy”!!!
71!! god..i feel so ignorant after reading the list!
1 Don quixote
2 A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
3 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
4 The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
5 The Count of Monte Cristo
6 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
7 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
8 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
9 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling
10 Dracula by Bram Stoker
11 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
12 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
13 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
14 Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
15 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
16 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
17 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
18 Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
19 A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
I’ve just begun.
@webaddict
Comedy is not humour. You shouldn’t expect to be laughing all the way through these novels. Sometimes you will be, but at other times you will be crying. Every comic, it is said, wants to play Hamlet, and many comic novelists — Evelyn Waugh, archetypally — have a serious purpose. The world’s hypocrisies and deceptions are targets that must be attacked, comedy the literary weapon of choice. The greatest comic novels — Don Quixote, Tristram Shandy, Oblomov, Bouvard et Pécuchet, Dead Souls, A Handful of Dust, Pnin — demonstrate that the comic mode can sustain the very greatest writing. Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire. When Tony Last is lost in the jungle at the end of A Handful of Dust, faced with a lifetime of reading Dickens to the mad Mr Todd, should we laugh or cry at such an ending (an ending that Waugh’s US publisher deemed too unsettling for an American audience)? One thing is certain — we will never forget it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/19/1000-novels-comedy-introduction
@ well its a great begginning Akshay 🙂